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!

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!

John Alexander wrote:

you too can have a cluster with the same compute power of an 5 year old Atom CPU

If you manage to get the videocore to "do your work" the raspberry pi is QUITE economic in terms of performance per dollar. Or performance per Watt. 24 Gflops for a raspberry pi, 500 Gflops for a xeon. At $10 per node (5 for the RPI, 5 for the SDcard) a 20-node RPI cluster would in theory achieve similar performance as a hefty xeon. I think those xeons would cost more than $200, and similarly, at 1W per node, the rpi's would also be more energy efficient.

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 zero is being used to make a small robot and a private roadtest

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.

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

Indeed "If you manage to get the videocore to "do your work" the raspberry pi is QUITE economic"

IF !!

That was a big custom PCB that guy made as well by the time you add that in then you are probably better off using a cluster of Tamagotchi!

Really... lets admit it  a cluster of these is useless except in bragging rights that you have a cluster of them

BTW you CAN have a cluster of Tamocochi!!!!!!

http://hackaday.com/2015/11/24/building-the-infinite-matrix-of-tamagotchis/

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

Shabaz I don't think there is that many in use since they don't effectively run Kodi since they lack the networking and USB required for remote keyboards mice etc etc.

This is where 90% of RPIs go and the RPI2 is quite good at it and is still very cheap. It's also why we have 300K+ members in E14 but no one coming back more than once after they get their bit of info needed to get an image on to the RPI and it then becomes a media player.

The Zero is good for more deeply embedded projects which aren't normally educational projects so we don't have so many of the "NOOB" (hate that word!) questions.

In Hackaday for instance anyone who can put a USB hub on it is worthy of a mention and even if you can only get that far you dont need to ask the like of us to help you with your project!

It's a pity to see so many Raspberry Pi's enslaved as cheap media players.