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Message started by Fernando on Mar 4^th, 2017, 12:26am

Title: The Wireless Raspberry Pi 0W
Post by Fernando on Mar 4^th, 2017, 12:26am

The Raspberry Foundation came with a new R-Pi, the Raspberry Pi 0W. It is a Raspberry Pi 0 with Wifi and BlueTooth on it. The problem is, to have Wireless Capability on the R-Pi 0, they had to increase the price from $5 to $10. This pushes it out of the Under $10 bracket.

The question remains - will it replace the $5 R-Pi 0 (v1.3, with Camera Input Slot) like the R-Pi 0 v1.3 replaced the R-Pi 0 v1.2 (without the Camera Slot)? I always consider the v1.2 R-Pi 0 to be better because many projects do not require the Camera, so on 90+% of all R-Pis are not using the Camera Input they have. Though needed, the $10 R-Pi 0W does not fit the niche the $5 R-Pi 0 does - being in schools of poor nations that can not afford such technology. So I hope it does not replace the R-Pi 0, at least not for a long while.

The R-Pi 0W is made because it is said too many R-Pi 0s out there use a USB Wifi Dongle. Except for the Wifi and Bluetooth, it is the same R-Pi Zero we know and love. It uses the same Raspbian OS, though it may need to be updated for the wireless modules to be installed. A simple "apt-get update" and "apt-get upgrade" command in the terminal should do this.

More information is found on the Raspberry Pi Foundation website:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero-w-joins-family/

Checking out Ebay, the R-Pi 0W has not reached the market yet, but it soon will.
It is said that the local dealers already have the R-Pi 0W, like AdaFruit and MicroCenter.

Title: Re: The Wireless Raspberry Pi 0W
Post by Hondo I. Sackett on Mar 5^th, 2017, 6:42pm

Thank so for the update on that!

Title: Re: The Wireless Raspberry Pi 0W
Post by Fernando on Mar 7^th, 2017, 12:15am

Update: Right now for the time being the R-Pi 0 will be sold along side the R-Pi 0W because there are over 3 million R-Pi 0's made.

With so many R-Pi 0's, their production will end soon but there is a huge over stock of them. It will take a while for the R-Pi 0W to see the numbers the R-Pi 0 has. And it will take a while for the R-Pi 0 to be all sold out.