The Raspberry Pi Zero was released on the US Thanksgiving Holiday. I got it last week from a local electronics store and installed Rasbian on it on Sunday. Although it was $5.00 (+$0.37 tax), I had to have the following in order to set it up as it had limited number of ports (one Micro HDMI and two Micro USB):
- Micro-USB cable w/ USB power adapter (from existing tablet)
- Micro-USB male to USB female adapter ($2.49 + $0.19 tax)
- Micro-HDMI to HDMI adapter ($9.49)
- USB hub (free from a conference I attended)
- USB to Ethernet adapter (from existing 2-in-1 computer)
- USB mouse and keyboard (previously purchased)
- 16GB Micro SDHC card (previously purchased for Raspberry Pi 2)
Unless the Zero is connected to sensors and/or is networked, it is not very useful. Question is…what do I do with it? Check back later and find out.