“Ok so it was $30 to ship to Australia . But still ... a freakin' $30 computer !
Had a project in mind but then I just got into the whole geeky world of Pi instead .
I will get back to the project ....I will...... right after I have messed with the GPIO pins a bit more. Most fun a geek can have for $30 .
Great work guys ....”
“I wanted to buy a regular Pi Zero for quite a while, but it was always out of stock. Now i finally got a Pi Zero W and i love it. The addition of Wifi might not be worth 5 bucks in components, but i think it is a totally reasonable price and will probably also increase availability, due to the bigger margin for the manufacturer.
I am currently using it as a motion detecting surveillance camera, in the official case with the camera lid and the Pi NoIr camera module. I have motion (http://www.lavrsen.dk/foswiki/bin/view/Motion) running on it, configured with mail sending and ftp uploading. The whole assembly is mounted in a Manfrotto MCLAMP (smartphone tripod adapter; the generic ones are probably working fine as well) to attach it to a small tripod ballhead. The only other addition is a micro USB cable for power, as i am managing the box via SSH, SCP and occasionally Webmin.
I measured an average power consumption”
