“Fantastic little SBC with a myriad of uses - got one for a PiHole and one for OctoPrint servers .. service was impeccable and shipping quick - recommend both Pimoroni and the Zero!”
“The least powerful of the Raspberry Pis (not counting the Pico as that is not a single-board computer), the Zero is small enough to fit inside all manner of enclosures. The lower power brings significantly lower power consumption, which is important for mobile applications. Buying the ‘W’ version saves time and stress adding header pins!”
“I bought the Raspberry Pi Zero W to test offboarding workloads from my main laptop to something unencumbered by Windows! I followed a few guides on setting up the device as a USB Ethernet device, and found this very useful, however, my plan of using any Docker images on the Raspberry Pi Zero W were somewhat scuppered by the fact that most Docker images don't support ARMv6 architectures.
Raspberry Pi OS installs fine on the device, and it's suitable for VNC based access of simple applications and websites - but certainly isn't suitable for what I was hoping to use it for - at least for now! That said, for around £10 I certainly can't complain that I've wasted money on it - there will be other projects I can use this for in the mid-to-near future - I just need to have a think about what I'll use it for!
Coupled with the Solderless Zero Dongle for Raspberry Pi Zero board, it is easy to connect to a computer as a RNDIS Ethernet device, and may have many other options available to you!”
