Pi Zero Cluster

Workshopshed over 9 years ago

I spotted this project from Koichi Nakamura

A mother board approach to a Pi Zero cluster

https://twitter.com/9_ties/status/689707306494271488

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Problemchild over 9 years ago

Yes Andy stick 30++ PI Zeros which are either unobtainium or £30 ea from Cool components then stick them in an expensive carrier board then you too can have a cluster with the same compute power of an 5 year old Atom CPU

Nice toy but Clusters of RPIs are a joke and merely noise to stop us looking at any number of much better boards out there!
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shabaz over 9 years ago in reply to Problemchild

Or have a 'Zero amnesty. Because maybe a whole load that were purchased are lying unused!
Mine is unused but (like many others perhaps) it is there for a "rainy day" - not really for any educational use.
(despite the amount of rainy days here.. wonder when I will finally use it.
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Workshopshed over 9 years ago in reply to shabaz

My zero is being used to make a small robot and a private roadtest
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shabaz over 9 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

Hi Andy,

I think we're the exception though. If there were ten thousand Pi Zero's sold and being used, maybe there would be more noise - instead the projects I'm seeing reported on the Internet are by people we know, standing out of the noise. I don't know 10 thousand people : ) probably the Zero's are thinly spread since most people can't purchase more than one or two at a time.
For example, this recent post shows about 10 interesting Pi Zero projects: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-zero-projects/
Yet of the 10, I have heard of some of these people : ) especially Frederick's amazing projects! And the last one on that list was by a store (ModMyPi) so they have a vested interest to create content.
I get that not everyone blogs, but by the law of averages with (say) 10k sold (I have no idea - this is a stab in the dark) we should have seen a _lot_ more from the noise on that list of 10 projects.
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mconners over 9 years ago in reply to shabaz

The other odd thing is we haven't seen a million(or 5000) "How can I get my Pi Zero to work?" questions posted on here

Mike
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Problemchild over 9 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

A Robot is a good use for the Zero it's appropriate to it's abilities
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Problemchild over 9 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

A Robot is a good use for the Zero it's appropriate to it's abilities
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