Raspberry Pi has launched a brand new model of its tiny wireless Zero W board, the Zero 2 W, with a lot improved efficiency, added options and a barely increased $15 price ticket. It makes use of a mildly downclocked model of the identical Broadcom BCM2710A1 SoC die used within the $35 Raspberry Pi 3, together with 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM. With that, it delivers a major efficiency enhance over the original Zero, as much as 5 occasions quicker for multithreaded chores.
Whereas simply as tiny as the unique Zero (a couple of quarter the dimensions of a US financial institution be aware), it is extremely succesful. It comes with 2.4Ghz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n wi-fi LAN, Bluetooth 4.2, a USB 2.0 interface, a MicroSD card slot, Mini HDMI port, CSI-2 digicam connector, a HAT-compatible 40 pin I/O header, OpenGL ES 1.1, 2.0 graphics and H.264 1080p 30 encode and decode capabilities.
Because it’s the identical measurement as the unique Zero and the Zero W, “nearly all instances and equipment designed for Zero ought to work completely with the brand new board, together with our personal case and collection of cables,” the muse stated in a weblog put up. Moreover, it launched a brand new official Raspberry Pi Zero 2 USB energy provide unit ($8) that may additionally energy the Raspberry Pi 3B or 3B+. The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is now available to buy within the UK, EU, US, Canada and Hong Kong for $15 / £13.50.
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