You’ll probably also want a keyboard and mouse - the £7 official set is cheap and very decent for the money if you plan on setting your tiny computer up as a desktop device. If you’re already a Raspberry Pi user, you may have a lot of this gear already if not, the initial sub-£15 price grows to around £40. This includes three lids for different configurations: one which fully encloses the computer, one with a slot to expose the GPIO header, and a third with a mount and lens hole for a camera - a ribbon cable to connect a Raspberry Pi camera module is also suppliedĪlthough it only costs $15 to buy, as with any computer, you’ll need a few more things to actually use Raspberry Pi Zero 2: a mini-HDMI cable or adaptor to connect it to a monitor or TV a micro-USB to USB A adaptor so you can actually plug in USB devices, and a power supply, although you can power the Pi Zero 2 via a micro-USB cable connected to one of your PC’s USB3 ports, or any 5V DC 2.5A charger. Our review kit came with a £5 case that’s already available. We’re looking forward to upgrading our Raspberry Pi Zero-powered Retroflag GPi handheld console, but note that we may have to wait for operating system builders to roll out support for the new hardware in projects such as Lakka and RetroFlag’s fork of the RecalBox emulation OS. With its predecessor already a popular choice for emulating 8-bit and 16-bit consoles, small and inexpensive emulation systems are going to become more capable. With extra CPU power, we also anticipate a boom in Pi Zero-based emulation, especially as the Pi Zero 2 has exactly the same form factor. There are both commercial and DIY options for using Raspberry Pi as a thin client to connect remotely to another, more powerful PC.
But that also means you should probably look to a more powerful single-board computer if you want to build a micro media centre PC, even though specialist distributions such as Kodi are a bit more efficient than vanilla Raspberry Pi OS.Ī range of other operating systems are available for Raspberry Pi’s ARM CPU architecture, including Ubuntu Server, in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions, but also specialist options for digital billboards and smart home control. While we were surprised by how capable the Zero 2 actually is a desktop computer, that’s clearly not the primary purpose of this little PC. Website responsiveness in general can be a problem for the Pi Zero 2 - hardly surprising given how demanding many sites are.
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