Minimising power consumption

Disabling the HDMI port Make sure you can get SSH access once this is done first so you have the ability to turn it back on again should you need to!!! sudo nano /etc/rc.local Add this: # Disable the HDMI port (to save power) /usr/bin/tvservice -o This will disable the port once the RPi has booted (its still active […]

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RPi Zero Availability

Is volume manufacture coming? September 2016 Email from RPi Foundation At the moment the Zero is limited to one per customer.  At present we are focusing on getting the Zero into the hands of individuals and will not be offering a wholesale option in the near future.  For industrial purposes we recommend the A+. April […]

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RPi Zero Hardware General Specifications

Official Raspberry Pi Page https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/ Core Differences To The Raspberry Pi 2 Broadcom BCM2835 (as in Raspberry Pi 1, but @ 1GHz) single core processor instead of newer quad core BCM2836 (RPi 2). 512MB instead of 1GB RAM. Processor Broadcom BCM2835.  This contains an ARM1176JZFS (ARM11 using an ARMv6-architecture core) with floating point, running at 1GHz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. Memory […]

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