QUESTION OF THE MONTH: What version of the Raspberry Pi did you use in your last Pi project?

e14 Question of the Month

The Raspberry Pi single board computer (SBC) is one of the most favorite SBCs in the market today. It's been around for about 13 years and lists ten versions to date (Feb. 2025). While the Raspberry 5 is the most recent version of the Pi and some versions are no longer manufactured (e.g., 1A+, 1B, 1B+), there are earlier versions of the Pi still in use today.

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0 dougw 6 months ago

My last Raspberry Pi project used four Pi's - a PI 4B, a Pi 3B, two Pi Zero 2Ws and a Pico.

I also tried a Pi 4 Compute Module, but it didn't make it to the final apparatus.
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0 JWx 6 months ago

RPi CM4 and/or RPi Zero 1 IIRC
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0 Andrew J 6 months ago

Pi 3 when I built a Voron 2.4 printer. It was one I had kicking around from a surprise E14 package I received once.
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0 Jan Cumps 6 months ago

I'm currently using the small size 1A+ as LoRaWan gateway, and AVNET's custom SmartEdge IIOT Gateway (based on the Raspberry Pi 3 Compute design).

The 1A+ is powerfull enought to run a The Things Network gateway stack, and can run full time without cooling.
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0 BigG 6 months ago

Where does Raspberry Pi Zero W & Zero 2 W fit in?
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0 colporteur 6 months ago

I have a collection of Pi3B+ SBC from past lives that I am trying to use up. The last two are slated for a railroad animation project. Then it Pi4's.
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0 wolfgangfriedrich 6 months ago

Without reading the fine-print 'Pico2' would have been my answer, but that is not really a SBC.
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0 genebren 6 months ago

There are choices missing in the voting options, like none. While I do have a few Raspberry pi computers, I have never built any projects around them (or even powered them up). The closest that I came to using one was in the PiCasso Design Challenge. Some day I would like to circle back to that project and complete it.
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0 kmikemoo 6 months ago in reply to BigG

The project before the last one was a Zero 2.
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0 ralphjy 6 months ago

I’ve used a few RPi5s since they have become widely available. Primarily for home automation and vision AI projects.
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