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RE: A promise to myself: learning and growing
They all use the same OS, I use Raspbian a Debian based Linux customized for the Raspberry Pi hardware. The older RPi's have 36 GPIO pins and the newer ones have a 40 pin GPIO interface. Hat's (RPi foundation name for interface cards. Older hats will work on newer computers but not recommended. So you could start with a Zero and as new need more horsepower happens you just upgrade RPi board, sd card will work the same on all the newer models.
Sweet.
Any chance you've got a zero w you'd sell for some SBD? Down to pay a bit of a premium for the convenience.
Otherwise I'm convinced that's the route I'll take when I get paid in a week.
Unfortunately both my Zeros do not have wireless. Real pain as that means adding hardware for networking. As I said checkout https://www.adafruit.com/product/3410 this is a basic starter kit.
Yep, a lot of those packs are really enticing.