If you are looking for a compact development board that has more computing power than your Arduinos this might be the time to take the plunge into the Raspberry Pi world now that the RASPBERRY PI ZERO has been released. TheRaspberryPiGuy gives us the run down. They have made it much smaller, removed all of the larger components and some have been replaced with mini counterparts. If you blow it up during testing, no worries since it costs $5. Need something that will live in a project, again no worries since for this price there would be no need to scavenge for parts in old projects, just buy a new Pi.

“Pi Zero, made in Wales and priced at just $5. Zero is a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family, featuring:

• A Broadcom BCM2835 application processor
  • 1GHz ARM11 core (40% faster than Raspberry Pi 1)
• 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM
• A micro-SD card slot
• A mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output
• Micro-USB sockets for data and power
• An unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header
  • Identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B
• An unpopulated composite video header
• Our smallest ever form factor, at 65mm x 30mm x 5mm”