Pi Zero Cluster

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!

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.

My turn again. The lament of most Pi's being used for video streaming is a reflection of the market. Build it and they will come. Pi 2 is quickly becoming the premier solution for personal video streaming. I found the biggest limiting factor is really the network bandwidth. B+ and my old B also run Kodi without buffering on clear nights, when traffic is low. Just as, my Pi 2 with overclocking, will still buffer a lot, when everybody in the neighborhood is checking their Facebook page.  Be happy that the market is there, and chalk it up to a steady input of funding.  Now for more interesting uses for the Pi, I didn't hear about anyone that is doing video, or artificial intelligence, or voice recognition and text to speech. The entire library of Sourceforge applications is waiting to get tested out on this platform.

Keep getting the word out. We really  do have a better mouse trap.

Jack

ps. wasn't this a discussion about Pi Zero being used for clusters?

Agreed Jack the volume of sales has kept  interest in this device alive although the pretence of a great educational revival on the back of it actually drives the delivery of a quite good video platform.

Fortunately with millions of them about even if the number that do inspire kids is say .01% then we will have 100s if not thousands of engineers brought in to the frey by them and we should be grateful for that.

Re Zeros for clusters, that's just silly  for reasons mentioned previously also in terms of RPIs it would be more economic to use RPI2s as a cluster as you get a QUAD core for £25! and you dont need a special board to attach to them

Looks like cool components have tried to do something to improve their position on the price elasticity curve, they have "slashed" prices heavily down to a mere £24 including tax. Their stock has now depleted from 6 to 2 in 48 hours. : ) Hardly popular item at these prices.

Their generosity knows no bounds. :)

They're out of stock now.. price now set back to £6, so no-one is the wiser : )

The twitter response from a week ago,.. interesting how they treated potential customers I thought..

Pimoroni had restocked at noon today, tried to come to e14 to spread the news, but website was down ...

How does pimoroni get them, when I ordered one the day they were released from Newark and my delivery date was pushed out to March 21.

I thought newark/element 14 were partners with the foundation.

Mike

Not sure, but I ordered one every time they restocked, always get it within a couple of days.

Looks like newark/e14 should have a talk  with the foundation or work on their process.

Don't think there's any money in it so really no great urge to chase after the remaining stocks!

I'm not sure that this still holds for "production of the pi zero". It could be that the foundation now has a separate deal with the Sony FAB to make the 'zeros, and that those  being produced are being shared between pimoroni, farnell, pihut and a few others......

I'm not sure that this still holds for "production of the pi zero". It could be that the foundation now has a separate deal with the Sony FAB to make the 'zeros, and that those  being produced are being shared between pimoroni, farnell, pihut and a few others......

I understand the same Roger. RPF is now actually a manufacturer in it's own right subcontracting to the likes of Sony rather than E14/Farnell/RS doing it for them!