First Impressions of the new tiny £5 Raspberry Pi Zero.
29 Feb 2016 • 2 min
I brought a Raspberry Pi Zero on Friday because it was really hyped up and it was also very cheap. I brought mine from The Pi Hut, I got the Zero + Essentials Kit variation (which costed £10.25 at the time of purchase).
My first impression of the Pi Zero was that it was extremely small. The only place I had seen it is in magazines which made it look bigger. When I first booted it up it took a while making me think it was going to be quite slow but once it was booted up it seemed quite snappy (in bash/command line mode).
pi
for the username and raspberry
for the password.sudo raspi-config
then selecting 'Expand Filesystem'.sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
but as I already knew my Wi-Fi SSID and Password it was unnecessary. The ESSID
part is the SSID you need for latersudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
. Then going to the bottom of the file and adding:network={
ssid="ssid of your network"
psk="password of your network"
}
sudo apt-get update
. You could also do sudo apt-get upgrade
if your image is a bit old.sudo apt-get install lynx
. Then opening it by typing lynx
.Overall the Raspberry Pi Zero is great for the £5 price tag but can set you back a little more for the adapters. It is very small so can be used for projects when a traditional Pi is too big.
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