there's a new member in the raspberry pi
product family today and it's a bit of a
mouthful the raspberry pi 0 w
functionally it's very similar to the
currently existing raspberry pi 0 it
features the same one gigahertz single
core CPU the same 512 megabytes of ram
the very same mini HDMI and USB
on-the-go ports for interfacing with a
computer the familiar 40 pin header for
GPIO access and the same CSI camera
connector but it adds one significant
component that's missing since the board
is announced a little over a year ago a
radio 4 802 11 and wireless LAN and
Bluetooth 4.0 it's the very same radio
that appears on the Raspberry Pi 3 so if
you've worked with that board you'll be
in familiar territory this welcome
Edition will make the PI 0 that much
easier to work with when setting it up
and will reduce the number of components
you need for embedded or headless
applications this new edition of the
board however comes at a price the
Raspberry Pi 0 W will sell for 10
dollars compared to the 0 to 5 dollar
price tag to celebrate this announcement
let's take a look at a handful of
projects from the main community that
make use of the PI 0 and see how they be
benefited from the addition of the PI 0
WL Nick Brewers vintage intercom echo
takes a classic intercom speaker and
uses a Raspberry Pi 0 in the Amazon
Alexa voice service to modernize the
vintage hardware with all of the
functionality of Amazon echo today is
Robert De Niro's birthday you talking to
me with Raspberry Pi 0 W you'll be able
to do without the USB hub since the
Wi-Fi connectivity is built on to the
board but you'll still need a USB
on-the-go adapter to connect the audio
card and microphone this pi 0 iot LED
matrix beamer projects messages from the
internet using a hacked lamp for my kia
then 8x8 LED matrix the original design
demanded a USB on-the-go adapter to
connect a Wi-Fi module so it can reach
the outside world but with this new
board you can go without it's not a
master change but a welcome one
finally we get another project from Nik
Brewer the pixi gift camera this is a
Raspberry Pi powered camera that takes a
series of images using the PI cameron's
stitches them together into an animated
gif there are a number of ways you can
set up the camera either to store the
images on the internal SD card or on a
USB thumb drive for easy offload the
third option is to use the Twitter API
and have the pixie post gifts directly
to a Twitter account of your choosing if
you offer this you'll be able to forego
the additional hardware the PI 0w is
hardly life-changing but it's these
little conveniences that make it a far
easier board to work with to develop
your embedded or IOT application
what's more the Raspberry Pi foundation
is also releasing an official enclosure
for the Raspberry Pi 0 with three
different variants a plain enclosure one
with mounting points for the Raspberry
Pi camera module and one with open
access to the PI's GPIO pin the
Raspberry Pi 0 W is available now
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