![]() The initial excitement about the $5 price tag soon starts to wane when you start buying the add-ons. The PiZero created a fair amount of excitement at work but for what are probably the wrong reasons. One hour after starting the process I had a PiZero on the network connecting to the command line via SSH. The next step, booting to the desktop and the first thing to do, configure the system to boot to the command line and setup the network settings for the WiFi. The first things NOOBS did was to reorganise the file store, this takes about 30 minutes. The board started reasonably quickly although users of the Raspberry Pi B+ etc will find the start up a little slow. NOOBS starts to the desktop by default and so the mini-HDMI connection is essential. Keyboard, trackball and WiFi dongle were added to the hub. My USB hub was connected through an ingenious USB OTG Convertor. But first a few connections, the HDMI was connected through a standard HDMI cable through a convertor to the the mini-HDMI. ![]() This just needs a formatted SD card, 16GB should do it.įormatting the SD card and dropping NOOBS on the card took about 5 minutes, now time to finally power on the Raspberry Pi. Setting up the PiZero was as simple as the initial setup for the rest of the Raspberry Pi family. A small pause while waiting for delivery. It is not often that Amazon let me down but this was one of those times. The PiZero arrived in short order, the accessories were another matter. In hindsight I should have ordered the additional cables when purchasing the PiZero from Pimoroni as these were on offer for £8 at the time of ordering. The micro-SD cards I have in abundance but the additional connectors needed to start work are another matter. Some hobbyists are sure to have the additional connectors in their parts bucket, but not this one, every other cable you can think of but not the OTG or HDMI convertor! Over the years I have collected a fair number of cables and other spare parts but none are suitable for the PiZero. The form factor and price combined are sure to make this ideal for the hobby/hacker market.
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