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

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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.

0 kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to vmate

vmate Except that part of the allure of the Zero's is their form factor. It isn't always about processing power. We still love the 3B for its power properties. Let's at least let little brother have a spot on the survey.
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0 Robert Peter Oakes over 1 year ago

I have used pretty much every version of the PI from the original through to the PI4. No PI5's yet, this includes RP2040 based boards. My latest venture with the PI3B+, 4's and RP2040 boards as extended MCU to the boards running Klipper etc for some 3D printer builds I am currently recording and they are more than adequate,
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0 vmate over 1 year ago in reply to BigG

I guess the Zero would count as a Pi 1, and the Zero 2 as a Pi 3, they share the same CPU.
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0 ralphjy over 1 year 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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0 kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to BigG

The project before the last one was a Zero 2.
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0 genebren over 1 year 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 wolfgangfriedrich over 1 year ago

Without reading the fine-print 'Pico2' would have been my answer, but that is not really a SBC.
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0 colporteur over 1 year 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 BigG over 1 year ago

Where does Raspberry Pi Zero W & Zero 2 W fit in?
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0 Jan Cumps over 1 year 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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