hi I'm David with make and today the
Raspberry Pi foundation shocked nearly
everyone announcing the five-dollar
Raspberry Pi zero that's right this
board costs only five dollars let's
check out zero cover its specs and talk
about how to get started with this new
board from the PI foundation the first
thing you'll notice about 0 is that it's
much smaller than any of the previous
Raspberry Pi boards it's 30 millimeters
by 65 millimeters and it's only 6
millimeters tall here's how they did it
go under the Ethernet port and the 3.5
millimeter trrs connector the 40 pin
headers for GPIO are unpopulated but a
quick soldering session with a 40 by 2
header will solve that the CSI and dsi
ribbon connectors used by the official
PI camera and display are also absent
from the new design HDMI is shrunken
from its standard size to HDMI mini
meaning you'll want to get a mini 2
standard HDMI adapter if you're planning
to use a video output go on are the usb
a ports replaced by a pair of USB micro
ports one to provide power to the PI and
the other supporting USB on-the-go these
hardware changes may make the 0 seem
pretty Spartan but it still got plenty
of power in fact PI 0 uses the same
application processor as the Raspberry
Pi B however the CPU clock speed on 0 is
bumped up to 1 Giga heard from 750
megahertz which should help with
performance and 512 megabytes of RAM
should be ample for most applications
and single-threaded demands the PI
foundation estimates the 0 is about 40
to 60 percent faster than the original
PI though it does lack the multi-core
processing found in Raspberry Pi 2
released earlier this year now that
there's a $5 PI how do you think it's
gonna affect the single board computer
market let us know in the comments below
and be sure to come back on Tuesday when
we're gonna do something a little bit
different Caleb's gonna take us on a
tour of the incredible City Museum in
st. Louis thanks for watching and we'll
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