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[CONFIRMED] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:21 am
by abrugsch
you saw it here first ;) (unless you already saw it, in which case you saw it somewhere else first)
http://gearopen.com/gears/raspberry-pi- ... iew-50970/

edit: It's now confirmed:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbe ... ns-family/

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:39 am
by moosepr
would be nice!! But there doesn't seem to be much extra on the board :?

:edit: scrap that!! there is a big silver square in the middle :P doesnt help when half of the pictures on that page are the mk1 zero without the camera connector!

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 9:46 am
by abrugsch
exactly... I think the original article got published early as the trusted reviews link is absent...

but yes. I can't see any space for the antenna though....

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:06 am
by kite
This is great news :) !!

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:39 pm
by moosepr
I just had a thought actually. Doesn't the pi3 wi-fi use the same USB as the ethernet and such? In which case they would need to add a USB hub into the zero to be able to add the wireless? Or am i just talking garbage? :|

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 3:45 pm
by kite
moosepr wrote:I just had a thought actually. Doesn't the pi3 wi-fi use the same USB as the ethernet and such? In which case they would need to add a USB hub into the zero to be able to add the wireless? Or am i just talking garbage? :|
It uses the 'SDIO' pins, so no USB needed at all, and without using any GPIO pins (the SDIO pins they use are on the CPU itself, and not broken out on the normal Pis .. the compute module has them however.

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2017 10:12 pm
by moosepr
Ah yeah I remember now. It's just something in the article doesn't feel right.

I'm hoping it's true and it's one that has been leaked by the manufacturing chain or something, but it's odd that this small blog I have never heard of has the scoop

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 1:05 am
by abrugsch
It didn't. It scraped the article when it went live but didn't pull it when trusted pulled theirs ;)

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:08 am
by n.marek
CONFIRMED, just got an email:
https://thepihut.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-w

edit: I am so sick of the fact that you can only order 1... It really sucks if you have to pay for international postage for just a single item... I hoped they would have better stock by now... Unlike the RPi 0

Re: [rumour mill] RASPBERRY PI ZERO W (WIFI)

Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 2:26 am
by abrugsch
Bought! thanks @n.marek