Pi Zero Cluster

To me it seems even Raspberrypi.org and the resellers are not sure about the reason for the Zero. (my underlining):

Raspberry pi.org's announcement:

However their online store hints at another use, i.e. building projects!:

The resellers go a bit further. This is what ModMyPi advertise the 'Zero for. And they must be experts on it, since they are the ones facing the customers parting with the money:

For comparison, this is the old Pi model B on ModMyPi's site:

Cool Components want the 30GPB for the 'Zero and suggest this is the reason for having a Zero:

Agreed well researched Shabaz, welcome to the world of commercial RPI deployment...Really the Zero is what the "compute" board should of been at £30 is the same price £5ish is more appropriate.

I would pay a bit more for the new  SOC and 1GB of RAM since the RPI only became really tractable once this happened and you can then use many more standard set ups with out cutting them down too much!

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.