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24 alternatives to Raspberry Pi Zero
The $5 computer
Raspberry Pi Zero is a minimal computer released in 2015 for $5. It is designed for hobbyists, developers, and makers building robots and other tech projects. The device stands out for its extremely low cost and small… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Raspberry Pi Zero launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Smaller, better, and cheaper: $20
2014 · raspberrypi.org · its alternatives →
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New Raspberry Pi Zero with wireless LAN and Bluetooth
2017 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →
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Raspberry Pi 2▲2882nd generation with faster processor and more memory
2015 · raspberrypi.org · its alternatives →
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Made in Wales, priced at 5$. And you thought 35$ was cheap..
2015 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · raspberry.io · its alternatives →
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Raspberry Pi 3▲4383nd generation with faster processor, wireless and Bluetooth
2016 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →
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Raspberry Pi 400▲712A complete PC built into a keyboard for $70
2020 · raspberrypi.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · kelu124.gitbooks.io · its alternatives →
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Micro Displays for Raspberry Pi . Contribute to igbit/micro-displays development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been hacking away lately, and I'm now proud to show off my newest project - The Icepi Zero! In case you don't know what an FPGA is, this phrase summarizes it perfectly: "FPGAs work like this. You don't tell them what to do, you tell them what to BE." You don't program them, but you rewrite the circuits they contain! So I've made a PCB that carries an ECP5 FPGA, and has a raspberry pi zero footprint. It also has a few improvements! Notably the 2 USB b ports are replaced with 3 USB C ports, and it has multiple LEDs. This board can output HDMI, read from a uSD, use a SDRAM and much more.…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, we're Max and Byran from MUREX Robotics, a high school robotics team from Exeter, New Hampshire. We are super proud to have made this open source piece of technology! It is only 6.9 dollars (actually!) from JLCPCB :) I hope you like it. You can find us at [email protected] and [email protected] as well if you have any questions. We will be putting a small run of these boards for sale somewhere (we have <25 units of stock), probably for $10+shipping. Let us know if you're interested in more! Board files for everything we make is here:…
2024 · docs.murexrobotics.com · its alternatives →
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CHIP▲250The world's first nine dollar computer (pre-launch)
2015 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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Using only a Raspberry Pi and an $11 video capture dongle, you can create your own KVM over IP device, allowing you to send keyboard input to a remote computer and capture its display.
2020 · mtlynch.io · its alternatives →
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A low power 1U Raspberry Pi cluster server for inexpensive colocation. - pawl/raspberry-pi-1u-server
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A global contest to grow and monitor your own food with Raspberry Pi - alexellis/growlab
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A Flipper Zero clone, but cheapest, DIY and simply Open Source, made with Arduino IDE - lraton/FlopperZiro
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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