Pi Zero W & SBC Update 

Your channel is a nice change of pace compared to the virtually every other channel in which only focus on extreme performance and gaming. You're a very clever dude.

Your way of explaining things is very appealing for a novice. Best tech channel on YT.

Your haircut makes it so much more nerdy and trustworthy :-)

What a great time to grow up. When I was a kid I taught myself BASIC on a TRS-80 and played with transistors, flip flops, and 555s. I think I still have an 8080a in a box somewhere. But I would have forgot all that to play with a Raspberry Pi. (Well, at the time so would the rest of the world!)

You have a surprisingly consistent quality through all your releases!

Christopher! Thank you for another video. I first heard about the Pi W last night and I thought you might release a video about it, and here it is! Thanks for the hard work. I may not get a gold, silver, or bronze medal because I am 16 minutes late, but I do get an informative video! You are still the #1 channel in my book. BY FAR!

it is not Sunday without the crinkle crinkle of a new SBC format. thumbs up.

I think that the pi zero will have many future revisions, anyone agree? Also Great video Chris, as usual.

One of the best tech channels on youtube. I think your work deserves more subscribers. P.S : Great job on this video.

You look like a real programmer - at the same time You are telling everything in interesting ways. ;) Thanks for great reviews! :)

3:29 Wow, that's really cool! L298N + Pi Zero + WiFi Dongle + Switches + Gears I really look forward for the update video regarding that!

I can imagine smart home techniques would be quite easy to DIY with this. Automatic Toilet: Here i come!

The raspberry pi zero W is really what the raspberry pi zero should have been to begin with. It's the ultimate DIY embedded computer now.

Fantastic vid as always Christopher, with plenty of info. Looking forward to all your upcoming videos, especially those on the Zumo. I already brought a Pi Zero W, though I haven't got a project for it yet :-) Sounds like the Zumo could well be it. Keep up the great work, all your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the Tinkerboard update. Raspberry Pi will have to pull out all the stops on the next Pi to fight off the threat of the Tinkerboard. I was pleased to see that they're got a major distributor in the UK (PC World/Currys). I'm looking forward to your future (whenever that is) Raspberry Pi vs Tinkerboard vs Orange Pi vs 'whatever' single board computer shoot-out review!

Looking forward to more of the LattePanda. I wish you would be able to show in full detail a typical setup for use as a standalone desktop PC for some online work. I would like to get one rather than buying a regular "tower PC". Most of the tools I use for work are online apps like Zendesk, and docs I save in the HD are later uploaded after editing, so they get deleted at the end of the day. Great show! Very informative!

As far as the Tinkerboard, I just left Micro Center in Denver and they had plenty of them on the shelf for $54.99.

very informative, I think I going to play with the pi w.

Great series! Learned a lot! Only wish I could magically stuff this thing into my trusty Palm TX and I'd the perfect true pocket PC!! Keep up the great work!

Exciting new addition to the Raspberry Pi line up. Thanks for the great video Chris!

I gave up on buying the original Pi Zero. I could never get hold of one as they seem to be constantly out of stock. This new wireless variety looks interesting though that is if we ever get to purchase it. Great review as always. Look forward to the Orange Pi review.

Really looking forward to the next pi robotics video Can't WAIT!!!!

I like the way you explain things on your channel, really nice and easy

I love this channel!

Pi zero w is a wet dream come true for those guy want to make a retro pi boy

Your channel is so slick it could be on Netflix ;)

it's actually tempting to build my own wireless home heating controller now, without having to fork out several hundred quid for a Hive.

Thanks from Enschede NL.. I lover your channel, I learned a lot from out my wheelchair, faster then I did it myself before my accident :)

Whenever a minimal device is introduced, somebody always starts demanding more. In this case, it would be nice if the Pi 0W had more memory; 512's a bit of a limitation. (It's also a pity that it's not possible to add memory to the Pi. (Swap can help, if you don't mind the performance hit,)

I continue to love this channel and the mannerisms.

The charge and battery management hardware on the chip is pretty valuable actually.

I'm really looking forward to see the next videos, your channel content is always great!

Great video! I just ordered my Raspberri Pi Zero W and I'm looking forward to getting started. Keep up the good work. :-)

Wireless on the board makes a brilliant improvement.

Takes me back to 'Tomorrow's World' which offered a no nonsense approach to new tech etc, you would have been a perfect presenter.

great videos keep it in the same way

Mister Barnett, a very excellent video as is your others. I like the pi and I am watching the continuing development of the Latte Panda as well as other boards. Please keep up the good work and your high standards. Tom

Great video as always. I find very interesting the design of the raspberry pi 0 w Wi-Fi antenna. A video talking about that and a comparison with the raspberry pi 3 wifi antenna would be awesome. keep the good work up! :)

Thanks for the research and information ,

I hope they keep updating the Zero line as well as the standard line. I feel like the main drawback of the Pi Zero was lack of wireless since it already lacked a lot of connectivity out of the box. Now that they've integrated Wi-Fi, I'm probably gonna get to tinkering!

I did not know this had come out , thank you. I am going to use it to convert my Wyse serial terminal ( or glass teletype if your older :P) to a SSH terminal.

Excellent video! Looking forward to the LattePanda, OrangePi video's as well as more info on the Tinker Board. Info on a stateside release would be great! I do hope someone[Asus?] does a version of Android for the Tinker as the RK3288 was originally made with Android as the primary OS implementation.

oh darling ! that is so fantastic !!! maybe we can make a cell phone booster with raspberry pi ! that would be splendid accomplishment !!! :)

Concerning the ASUS Tinkerboard, Christopher Barnatt does better IT journalism than many paid journalists.

i saw older vids and i just subscribed

Thank you for making videos

I wish you good luck with the Orange Pi. I have two; the Orange Pi One and the Orange Pi Lite. The hardware is well made, but the software is definitely lacking. I had good luck with Armbian, which is not listed on the Orange Pi site.

i think the respberry pi zeron W will make for a good single board general purpose machine too with most of the stuff connected via wireless instead of USB like with the Raspberry pi 3

Gread video! Best channel

try this,hook up a monitor and run the OS and use a flash to light the wireless chip.i think since is not potted it will loose connection due to the light

This environment of single board computers its exiting, remember the time where atari, amiga and apple release their computers in the 80's? Now is similar. And more open for experimenting.

I think it may be finally time to build a NES RetroCart using the Pi Zero W.

thanks for your time to share your knowledge 👍😀

$10 would be a good price but I haven't been able to find it in stock yet for less than $20.

I'm now off to eat some juicy fruit. All this talk of raspberries and oranges making me parched!

Huh, looks like they bothered to include a complete pad for a u.fl connector on the Zero W unlike the half pad on the Pi3, nifty! Could actually install a decent little external antenna on your project if you liked. I hope some day in the future they come out with a full fledged Pi2/3 in a similar form factor, that could make for some interestingly tiny Retropie/HTPC builds. But I figure they want to keep it flat on the back like they have for a reason. Edit: Unless Asus or somebody provides drivers for the Tinkerboard's GPU it'll be doomed to so-so support like the Odroid, those Mali GPUs always keep these "Pi-Killers" from actually doing decently.

Thank you for your excellent videos good sir!

A tip: download and Install armbian on the orange pi instead of the official distros!

Hi, fantastic channel! There seems to be almost no information at all on the net about the thermal properties of the Tinker Board, and I would love to see something like your monster heatsink video for the Tinker Board, or please just a quick comment about what kind of temps you see under full load. Thanks very much!

can you make a video comparing the raspberry pi zero vs an old windows xp pc?

What SBC would you recommend not only for everyday use but also watching RU-vid videos and also using audacity to record/edit audio? Nice video BTW!! 😀

I was under the impression that the original Pi Zero targeted integrated hardware more than the beginner "Hello World" community. I see a lot of simple projects like gaming, Kody, and basic radio controlled toys, but where are the advanced projects? I'm curious about real time audio processing with FFT, electrical engineering lab hardware/tools, robotics with complex degrees of freedom, or prototype automation. Is there a place that guides people through these types of projects?

I really have to stop watching your videos!!! I saw this again last week and ordered a PI.0.W... arrived within a couple of days and I am savoring the moment! (PS. My wife told me to unsubscribe... I wonder why!)

Another great video. Thanks!

Could a Raspberry Pi be made to run on a battery like a laptop can???

hello i don't know raspberry pi zero can run web server with nginx and php7 with request can increase 200 in 1 sec, can tell raspberry pi zero can run?

Hello Chris.. Would you be able too do a video of you shouldering the GPIO pins onto the PI and using them or a soldering tutorial? Thanks

Very good presentation of the product and excelant information about the tinker board. Nice job. BTW : Any new "Embracing Linux week " ?

Greetings from Italy!

Just go to order 2 or 3 right now.

lucky for me Im getting my hands on one after a 2 month wait!

When you compared the Zero W against the CHIP, it's obvious the Zero W is the better computer. The CHIP launching without HDMI is a major downside in my opinion and it's not worth the extra $10-$15 cost for the HDMI add on. Plus you have to use ALL the GPIO pins (yes I know you can solder on more pins on the HDMI attachment, but you shouldn't have to do that).

Is there an option to clip on something like a SMA to U.FL lead for adding a bigger wifi antenna? People could buy one of those dummy CCTV cameras and install the new Pi Zero in it with camera attachment. Turn the dummy camera into a smart IP camera either fixed or with some servos to allow it to look around.

Great video! Do you think it could run mint playing RU-vid 1080p60fps?

Hello sir. I have an opportunity to get an Orange Pi Lite computer. Im not sure if you came across this one, but apparently its like Raspberry 2, which also supports Android. Would it be a good choice for a first touch with micro computing, or would you rather suggest spare some more money and get the new Raspberry Zero ?

Thanks for the update!

Chris, check out some Chuwi branded tablets.

I'm holding out for the Meat Pi.

' ... but the Pi Zero W will be in stock! ' 3 months after this video stock was still problematic and when I bought one in June I paid 25 usd at the cheapest retailer. I could have gotten my hands on it earlier, but I was hoping for a cheaper Zero. Even now stock is problematic. They are for sale, but you can't just buy a couple. Just like the previous models the whole 'super cheap pc' promise wasn't lived up to unless you lived in the right country. At least not for a long time. I can't really fault them too much considering how they run the foundation, it's not like they're Coca Cola and they can get everything up and running globally instantly, but it was a real bummer for a lot of people. (The previous models were sold here, but they wouldn't sell the official adapters, cables and some other peripherals and documentation on working SD cards was unreliable, so you'd spend a lot of time and money troubleshooting and trying different adapters, cables and SD-cards getting everything to work.)

This side of the globe as you head into Summer I will be heading into winter.

I've got to get me one of those RPi Zero W. It would make a great printer server.

Hmm, Cortex A17 sounds weird, I would've thought that they would use Cortex A57s or A72s

Is the video a bit jittery for anyone else, or is it just me? Thanks for the comparison and update on the other board :)

"the winter has gone away and spring will soon to be here" *looks at weather forecast sees blizzard* o.o

**heyy new video**

Any idea where an individual can buy multiple quantities of the Raspberry Pi Zero W? Tried the big authorized distributors like Newark but seems like they are only available in limited quantity of 1 in kits only at this time.

has there been any release date slated in the USA for the tinker board yet? I've been keeping my eye on it since u mentioned it 2 weeks ago and I'm really curiois about how the retropie OS will perform on this SBC

its about 40 dollars in my country

my camera says check connections especiialy the sunny one. But the connections are all fine!!! Please help!!!!!!!!!!!

hey I am still waiting for my lattepanda nas/storage/torrent benchmarks using sata.

hi me again! i love your videos! keep it up. i hope they send you things for free to review!

You know what’s so cool about the raspberry pi? You can, for an additional $25 dollars, set up an iPad through some app called Screens as a monitor by ssh and then connect an iPhone to the iPad for trackpad. Then add a Bluetooth keyboard and boom, you just turned an iPad into a desktop using a computer that actually has a decent operating system.

good info, thanks!

I was hoping for a pi 4 with significantly more memory.

never found a raspi pi zero for less then $20

The author reminds me both of John Lennon and David Deutsch. I am sure they three have some common ancient parentage!

nice video m8

Can you make a handheld gaming console with it?

If the ssd goes bad it can be replaced on the pi but not the chip.

Christopher did you know a board called Pine 64? She doesn't have a review made by someone who really knows about it, if you do ot its gona be awesome (sorry about the bad english)