The raspberry pi zero is a nightmare to get hold of and they are selling for silly money on auction sites. The Pi zero was given away free with MagPi magazine, this magazine (issue 40) sells for >£20 on auction sites by itself. You can get a Pi Zero, a cable adapter set and three issues of MagPi magazine for £12.99. I called them earlier and they confirmed you would get issue 40 (with free Pi), issue 42 and issue 43. The magazine in shops sells for £5.99 an issue.
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rorrism
19 Jan 1611#34
I don't disagree there are well made Chinese products, but there is rubbish out there as well. China is somewhere where manufacturing can be done cheaply which has contributed to Britain changing from a country which made goods thing to one which engineers good things which are made overseas for a lower price. It's nice to see companies from Britain supporting British industry even though it will probably lead to lower margins. This is a fully functioning computer engineered and made in the UK which I think is absolutely amazing, That is all.
If it works for sentient life forms then it's still probably worth a go with a Pi.
( PS Yes, I'm old and, yes, I've been on t'interweb tubes for far too many decades )
androoski
19 Jan 165#1
This is good because you also get 3 copies of MagPi too, which a £5.99 each at newsstands.
However, a bit of patience will get you a Zero for £6.50 (£4.00 + £2.50 postage) as production is being increased now to meet demand.
If you need the cables, then another £4.00.
This deal starts to look very good!
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androoski
19 Jan 165#1
This is good because you also get 3 copies of MagPi too, which a £5.99 each at newsstands.
However, a bit of patience will get you a Zero for £6.50 (£4.00 + £2.50 postage) as production is being increased now to meet demand.
If you need the cables, then another £4.00.
This deal starts to look very good!
superfreddy to androoski
19 Jan 16#5
Where from for £6.50?
CrawleyRed
19 Jan 16#2
do you have to set up a direct debit or just pay the 13.99 from a card?
rorrism
19 Jan 16#3
From what I was told you just pay £12.99. If they do set up a direct debit just cancel it, I have done this with many magazine subscriptions
emmsie27
19 Jan 162#4
I called and paid the £12.99 from my card. I was specific in saying I just wanted the three issues.
rorrism
19 Jan 162#6
That is RRP but as there is no stock anywhere you won't get one for that price for a while. When stock is released I imagine it will just fulfill pre-orders. Here you can have the Pi Zero, three magazines and the adapter set. If the Pi Zero was selling at RRP this still would be valued at about £28!
androoski
19 Jan 161#7
The PiHut and PiMoroni are the two resellers who have stocked the zero.
But as I said, a little patience is needed because production is being increased and stock will arrive soon. Neither of those two resellers are taking pre orders. They will notify if you register an email.
£4.00 is RRP, £2.50 is delivery.
Also, modmypi and the swag store.
wildcolor to androoski
19 Jan 161#15
I do not really understand why it takes them so long to mass produce the zero. I haven't seen any stock at all for a long time. I start to think that they are doing this as a marketting purpose...
superfreddy
19 Jan 16#8
Is the Zero actually any good though?
androoski
19 Jan 162#9
Depends what you want to do with it. It has its place in projects, being very small, light and needing very little power and almost a throwaway price.
But for most purposes, especially beginners a Pi2B is a better choice.
superfreddy
19 Jan 16#10
Can't find anywhere to notify me when it's back in stock
androoski
19 Jan 16#11
Well, on PiMoroni it will be the big red button with "Notify Me" on it.
I stuffed an A+ in to a snes pad, had to cut the board though, never really showed it anywhere.
GuigsyUK
19 Jan 162#13
Mine is currently on test as the hub to my heating system. I was going to put a cheapo microcontroller in each of my electric radiators too, but the Zero is so cheap I may as well by half a dozen of them and put them everywhere.
rorrism to GuigsyUK
19 Jan 16#14
That was one of my many ideas, a timer/thermostat which referenced the external temperature and could be controlled from outside the home. So many ideas so little time.
tinca
19 Jan 16#16
The boards are British made. Companies capable of making these are few and far between and those that can, have commitment other than the Pi, and no they cannot devote more production time to the Pi as it is a finite product and the market will soon top out.
wildcolor
19 Jan 161#17
That's exactly why they need to do mass produce when people are still loving it now and the Pi Zero is the top in the market.!!
R37R0
19 Jan 16#18
From playing around with my Pi Zero, I found its possible to play SD video in MP4 format fullscreen providing you use the omxplayer app that utilises the built-in GPU core. VLC will play mp3 but wont play mp4s as in VLC everything is done in software (not GPU).
As a basic media playback device the Pi Zero would probably be fine. Haven't tried streaming yet.
The limited RAM can be a pain if you are doing internet stuff, so if you plan to use it as a general purpose machine I would go with the Raspberry Pi B2 as the increased RAM and Quad cores handle the web better. Sadly the lack of flash support prevents a lot of the media-rich sites like iplayer this affects all variants because there us no ARM support for Flash.
rorrism to R37R0
19 Jan 161#20
If you use raspbmc or other kodi/openelec OSes on the Pi you will notice MUCH better playback. I have had raspbmc running and streaming fine on a Pi 1 which has lower specs than the zero so it should be fine.
hcc27 to R37R0
11 Feb 16#87
I believe video on Kodi is smooth enough - have a look at the YouTube videos showing the Pi Zero playing back HD videos stutter-free:
The Pi's were meant for education and possibly a very niche market. They were never intended to be popular. I think it is amazing they have produced something so good, well made, value for money, and not chinese made!
ukez
19 Jan 16#21
Can anyone tell me what is the latest most powerful PI, im yet to buy one of these gadgets..:smirk:
rorrism to ukez
19 Jan 161#22
The Pi 2 is the newest/fastest. The newer models are not only faster but also more power efficient
reddragon105 to ukez
20 Jan 16#40
That's two questions - the Zero is the latest, the Pi 2 Model 2 is the most powerful. Which you buy will depend on what you want to do with it, but if it's your first Pi go for the 2 - it'll run everything smoothly and I doubt there's anything you would absolutely need the small form factor of the Zero for (I'd like one to put in my coffee machine so that I can activate it over the internet and make sure I have fresh coffee waiting for me when I get home - the smaller the better for that purpose, and I wouldn't need the power of the Pi 2 to do that, but I have no idea where to start with wiring it up!)
What do you want to do? Multimedia is a common use - you're obviously aware of things like Kodi - and I've currently got my Pi 2 setup with a wireless Xbox 360 controller on my living room TV using recalbox, which is a suite of emulators, so that I can play SNES, Mega Drive games, etc. I've modified the original setup to add Kodi and Moonlight, which connects to my desktop PC, starts Steam in Big Picture Mode and streams it to my TV (so it basically does the job of a Steam Link), so that's a pretty good gaming setup!
But I've also got other plans - like the coffee machine one I mentioned above (I've seen examples of it done before), and I'd like to use it with my DSLR camera and slider to do motorised timelapses (like this - http://blog.davidsingleton.org/raspberry-pi-timelapse-controller/) and I'd also like to add a Pi NoIR (infrared) camera and make it motion triggered to get some night time photos/video of the wildlife in my garden. And I also need some kind of new audio player for my kitchen and I was thinking of using a Pi for that too - just hook it up to some speakers and use it to stream music from my media server.
Basically, if you can think of something you'd like/need to do that would require a small computer to power it, you can build it.
poopscoop
19 Jan 16#23
Exactly, it's for education and any model is easy to play and adapt with. Even the small bits of soldering you can do to it.
ukez
19 Jan 16#24
Thanks bud.. What's a good price to pay for one?
rorrism
19 Jan 161#25
£25.99 on Amazon now which is the cheapest they have been on there. Not really looked into it though. You need to factor in whether you want a case, PSU, SD-card etc. and it may work out better as a bundle.
ukez
19 Jan 161#26
Thanks again..
no1ally
19 Jan 16#27
Are there any cool projects you can do with the pi these days?
I have an original one and the best things was rplay, I have kodi as well but the stream quality was pretty terrible!
I liked the idea of an interactive calendar.
rorrism to no1ally
19 Jan 16#28
If you see my earlier comment in this thread I'm looking at putting a zero inside a nintendo NES controller and running retropie as an all in one emulator!
rorrism to no1ally
19 Jan 16#30
Sites like instructables and magazines like MagPi are full of ideas to make your own projects. Kits are available from the likes of PiHut or Amazon have a few to purchase from simple flashing LEDS to robots, printers etc.
I saw someone use a Pi to make a fart detector into a chair. Every time someone broke wind whilst sat in that chair it tweeted :smiley:
I am planning to use mine to make a air-gapped Bitcoin-Armory bitcoin verifier (https://bitcoinarmory.com)
An unnetworked (offline) computer is necessary to store bitcoins and verify transactions
Ian2014
19 Jan 161#31
On the MagPi site, you can download old copies of the magazines and a "Projects Book" to give you ideas.
ukez to Ian2014
19 Jan 16#35
Cool, I will just download this one next month and get my Raspberry Pi zero free that way.. No-brainer :laughing:
wildcolor
19 Jan 161#33
Please explain why not chinese made important to you? I think the Chinese made products made the the market diversity. If you still use the old thinkings, ie Chinese products = Cheap low quality stuff, I would then strongly disagree with you. Probably people always link Chinese products to cheap products. But if you stpend more money, you can buy very good quality stuff, such as Lenovo, Huawei, etc.
rorrism
19 Jan 1611#34
I don't disagree there are well made Chinese products, but there is rubbish out there as well. China is somewhere where manufacturing can be done cheaply which has contributed to Britain changing from a country which made goods thing to one which engineers good things which are made overseas for a lower price. It's nice to see companies from Britain supporting British industry even though it will probably lead to lower margins. This is a fully functioning computer engineered and made in the UK which I think is absolutely amazing, That is all.
hcc27
19 Jan 163#36
I was hoping to get a copy of the MagPi issue 40, went to the WH Smith at St. George's shopping centre in Harrow about an hour after it opened. Was informed that someone had come in at opening time and purchased all 100 copied they had in house. Within the next few hours, there were hundreds of these magazines on ebay.
This is the sad face of capitalism.
wildcolor
19 Jan 161#37
I'd like to see the renaissance of British heavy industry (Jaguar). But sadly things change. Even without Chinese products. there would be India, Pakistan etc. Similarly, like the air polution, we now all blame China. But really it seems to be a bit unfare to them because we (UK, US...) have already done exactly the same thing many years ago..
emmsie27
20 Jan 16#38
You can't get the Pi from downloading the digital edition of the magazine.
ukez
20 Jan 16#39
I was taking the pi** mate LOL :laughing:
jewelie
20 Jan 166#42
You could probably do it using a variation of the official internet standard RFC1437-
If it works for sentient life forms then it's still probably worth a go with a Pi.
( PS Yes, I'm old and, yes, I've been on t'interweb tubes for far too many decades )
skankingpigeons
20 Jan 16#43
I did this when the 40 came out and they signed me up to a reoccurring subscription. but I just emailed them and they cancelled no problem. also, my zero was broken but they sent out a replacement no problem
BungalowBill
20 Jan 16#44
100 copies, really? The two WHSmith I asked in, including the Birmingham city centre shop, had received half a dozen copies each.
alexjameshaines
20 Jan 162#45
I don't recall ever seeing 100 magazines total in a WHS!
poopscoop
20 Jan 16#46
I saw a few of those types buying lots of magazines. Just because they knew how to install an OS and plug in a few things they thought they were Steve Wozniak :smile:
crazylegs67
20 Jan 16#47
I am getting "number invalid" when trying to call. Anyone else? Trying 01202 586848
*edit* - Working now. Problem with my phone! Cheers
mjy58
20 Jan 16#48
I have just called that number and placed an order!
CrawleyRed
20 Jan 16#49
01202586848 worked at 10am this morning
b33r
20 Jan 16#50
They just took my order over the phone, very helpful lady :smiley:
MrGoerge to b33r
20 Jan 16#51
Can confirm. Lady was very helpful.
Joehawkins609
20 Jan 16#52
Anybody else had problems with the pizero corrupting sd card? I've tried multiple cards new and old. also lots of ROMS, but after a few hours of use/ turning on and off OS always seems to corrupt.
thetwistedblue to Joehawkins609
20 Jan 162#54
Not all SD cards are fully compatible. Did you check the compatibility list?
I have issue 40 and the Pi, delivered today. Well rorrism is the one getting it :smiley:
CrawleyRed
22 Jan 161#56
Received issue 40 with Pi Zero this morning! I guess they will send the other two issues separately.
rorrism to CrawleyRed
22 Jan 16#57
Issue 41 is the current issue (in shops at the moment) but won't be delivered with your subscription as they are out of stock. You'll get issue 42 in February and 43 in March.
neenyrules
22 Jan 16#58
Any idea what the "cable kit" should consist of? Received issue 40 today with the zero, and came with a mini-HDMI to HDMI adaptor and micro-B USB to USB A female cable.
Sure I saw somewhere that it comes with more that that?
You can download all the issues in PDF format from the website too by the way
neenyrules
22 Jan 16#61
Thanks!
leeparsons
23 Jan 16#62
Where does it say you get a pi zero and cable set with subscription then?
b33r to leeparsons
23 Jan 16#64
Issue 40 comes with a Pi Zero and cable set so as long as your subscription includes that one, you'll get them
bonzobanana
23 Jan 16#63
Like many I just want a zero or 2 on their own no cables I don't need or magazines and its taking some time to build up sufficient stock. Why you can't pre-order I don't know. It's all seems really strange business practices. Pre-ordering normally means they have a better idea of demand plus they have some working capital too which they gain interest on.
CrawleyRed
23 Jan 16#65
I just paid for 3 issue subscription and received the pi and 2 cables.
rorrism
24 Jan 16#66
One the phone we were told your subscription would start with issue 40 (the one with the free Pi), skip 41 and they'll deliver 42 and 43 when they are released.
rorrism
24 Jan 161#67
Oh, and I have received mine from Emmsie as an early birthday present :stuck_out_tongue:
leeparsons
24 Jan 16#68
Issue 40 does not come with a cable set, as I purchased it from smiths. Only Pi zero.
leeparsons
24 Jan 16#69
It now wont let you buy the 3 months subscription from website.
rorrism to leeparsons
24 Jan 16#71
Have you tried calling? We had to get ours over the phone.
rorrism
24 Jan 16#70
It doesn't but the subscription does as a gift
leeparsons
24 Jan 16#72
No i havent tried yet. Can you cancel via your bank? I am guessing it is DD?
rorrism
24 Jan 16#73
As far as I know it is a one off card payment but wouldn't do any harm to check online banking for any recurring transactions.
"3 issue recurring subscriptions to The MagPi are only available by calling 01202 586848 The office is staffed between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday."
CrawleyRed
24 Jan 16#76
Must be a one off payment.Surely they would want different details from your card to do a DD setup.
dogran
24 Jan 162#77
I rang mid week & asked about recurring payments & the lady on the phone said, no its a single payment & to get another three issues I'd have to call back after I get the third mag if I wanted any more magazines. She also said there will be a letter included with the 3rd mag to explain that.
CrawleyRed
25 Jan 16#78
many thanks for info.
leeparsons
29 Jan 16#79
Has any one got there's? did they cancel the dd?
emmsie27 to leeparsons
29 Jan 16#80
We've got the Pi with issue 40. Issue 42 has arrived now too. As far as Im aware when I called it was a one off payment for the three issues. As dogran has said I should get a letter with the 3rd magazine. Will just see what that says.
timefortea
29 Jan 16#81
Yes you'd have to setup a DD separately for ongoing subscription, that is what I did as I fancied subscribing to it for a while, I paid on CC for the 3-issue deal, then setup a DD for future issues.
leeparsons
29 Jan 161#82
Thanks for the reply Emma. I already got one, but thought this was a great offer, for a pi and 3 mags. I just dont want to be subscribed to it, for further issues. I was just checking. As most of these cheap offers you get (Ive had them in the past), generally means you need to cancel your dd, after intial payment is taken.
rorrism
4 Feb 162#83
Just to add, my Pi Zero is amazing and the magazine is actually a very good read. The latest issue has a lot of projects for the zero. Saw on twitter earlier that they are releasing more zeros today but expect them to go in no time (if they haven't already). Great to see there are plenty of like minded geeks on here!
leeparsons
5 Feb 16#84
I am still waiting to get issue 40. I have already received issue 42. How long does it take
timefortea to leeparsons
8 Feb 16#85
Mine arrived about 2 days after I ordered.
marra
9 Feb 16#86
same for me too and less than a week later issue 42 arrived.
leeparsons
19 Feb 16#88
I just wanted to inform any one, that they will setup a direct debit for this. As im holding it in my hands.
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The raspberry pi zero is a nightmare to get hold of and they are selling for silly money on auction sites. The Pi zero was given away free with MagPi magazine, this magazine (issue 40) sells for >£20 on auction sites by itself. You can get a Pi Zero, a cable adapter set and three issues of MagPi magazine for £12.99. I called them earlier and they confirmed you would get issue 40 (with free Pi), issue 42 and issue 43. The magazine in shops sells for £5.99 an issue.
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http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1437.html
If it works for sentient life forms then it's still probably worth a go with a Pi.
( PS Yes, I'm old and, yes, I've been on t'interweb tubes for far too many decades )
However, a bit of patience will get you a Zero for £6.50 (£4.00 + £2.50 postage) as production is being increased now to meet demand.
If you need the cables, then another £4.00.
This deal starts to look very good!
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However, a bit of patience will get you a Zero for £6.50 (£4.00 + £2.50 postage) as production is being increased now to meet demand.
If you need the cables, then another £4.00.
This deal starts to look very good!
But as I said, a little patience is needed because production is being increased and stock will arrive soon. Neither of those two resellers are taking pre orders. They will notify if you register an email.
£4.00 is RRP, £2.50 is delivery.
Also, modmypi and the swag store.
But for most purposes, especially beginners a Pi2B is a better choice.
As a basic media playback device the Pi Zero would probably be fine. Haven't tried streaming yet.
The limited RAM can be a pain if you are doing internet stuff, so if you plan to use it as a general purpose machine I would go with the Raspberry Pi B2 as the increased RAM and Quad cores handle the web better. Sadly the lack of flash support prevents a lot of the media-rich sites like iplayer this affects all variants because there us no ARM support for Flash.
e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8GZr2fyUY0
What do you want to do? Multimedia is a common use - you're obviously aware of things like Kodi - and I've currently got my Pi 2 setup with a wireless Xbox 360 controller on my living room TV using recalbox, which is a suite of emulators, so that I can play SNES, Mega Drive games, etc. I've modified the original setup to add Kodi and Moonlight, which connects to my desktop PC, starts Steam in Big Picture Mode and streams it to my TV (so it basically does the job of a Steam Link), so that's a pretty good gaming setup!
But I've also got other plans - like the coffee machine one I mentioned above (I've seen examples of it done before), and I'd like to use it with my DSLR camera and slider to do motorised timelapses (like this - http://blog.davidsingleton.org/raspberry-pi-timelapse-controller/) and I'd also like to add a Pi NoIR (infrared) camera and make it motion triggered to get some night time photos/video of the wildlife in my garden. And I also need some kind of new audio player for my kitchen and I was thinking of using a Pi for that too - just hook it up to some speakers and use it to stream music from my media server.
Basically, if you can think of something you'd like/need to do that would require a small computer to power it, you can build it.
I have an original one and the best things was rplay, I have kodi as well but the stream quality was pretty terrible!
I liked the idea of an interactive calendar.
I saw someone use a Pi to make a fart detector into a chair. Every time someone broke wind whilst sat in that chair it tweeted :smiley:
...that might be a good place for some inspiration
An unnetworked (offline) computer is necessary to store bitcoins and verify transactions
This is the sad face of capitalism.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1437.html
If it works for sentient life forms then it's still probably worth a go with a Pi.
( PS Yes, I'm old and, yes, I've been on t'interweb tubes for far too many decades )
*edit* - Working now. Problem with my phone! Cheers
http://elinux.org/RPi_SD_cards#Which_SD_card.3F
Sure I saw somewhere that it comes with more that that?
Mine came too :smiley:
"3 issue recurring subscriptions to The MagPi are only available by calling 01202 586848 The office is staffed between 9am and 5pm Monday to Friday."