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RE: A promise to myself: learning and growing
OMG theres so many to choose from! do they all use the same OS and accessories?
OMG theres so many to choose from! do they all use the same OS and accessories?
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.