raspberry pi zero w: 10$

shipping to europe: 50$

Thanks adafruit

Why buy from ada in europe? There's now a number of vendors in germany, france, etc 🤔

@SortOfTested can u tell me some? Closest i could think of was amazon.de but they sell them for like 20$

@yellow-dog When importing to EU/EEA you also have to add the local VAT to the Adafruit price.

Anyway found one for 16€ here (+ shipping at 6-16€ in the EU) at a German shop: https://pollin.de/p/...

@yellow-dog
https://berrybase.de/raspberry-pi-z...
https://pi-shop.ch/raspberry-pi-zer...
https://kubii.fr/les-cartes-raspber...
https://raspberrypi.dk/en/product/...

👆black belt in googlefu

@heyheni
Raspberry site -> vendor list -> filter by locality -> Google for pi zero w -> win absolutely nothing.

My favorite vendor. Maybe not the cheapest but I like them. https://reichelt.de/ch/de/...

I recently wanted to order a bag of springs(yes, normal steel springs) from the US but they wanted 150 bucks for shipping.

We live in interesting times.

@yellow-dog same here just bought zero w cost me $25
I could have bought from local shops but they don’t have tracking and cost difference was $8, so just went with amazon

Dame shit in Canada

Isn't Banana Pi a better hardware for the same price kind of deal?

@cprn i wanna do hardware stuff and dont feel like digging around for drivers

@yellow-dog AFAIK it runs standard Raspbian distribution without driver issues but I have little to no experience with pies.

Update: the cheapest i could find was a pi3 model A, for around 25$

@yellow-dog i am bit appalled by raspberry pi hype after using one

I got raspberry pi zero w. Wanted to build a little battery powered vital monitor for myself.

problem with all the raspberry pi models is low power mode, i reverse engineered a 650mAh battery pack to power it , power was measured to be 100+ mAh on idle after some configuration got it down to 48mAh which is a lot for OS not doing nothing

Still trying to hack cpu and gpu to squeeze more battery life. In just don’t know why that shit is marketed as a low power computer, clearly raspbian developers doesn’t know what low power means

@hardfault
Rasbian is the "intro i
Os" for kids and people new to the platform. If you want to minimum what's running, you're going to want to spin your own alpine or similar.

@hardfault if you want low power, get an alwinner board, those are optimized to run phones for hours. Broadcom is kinda crap tbh, i guess they have some exclusivity contract and thats why they still use them.