Background:

      The pi zero is the smallest version of the Raspberry pi. It's a slightly bigger than a stick of gum but it's still a full ratified computer. It's fantastic for trading Time Lord Pi projects like sitting retro pi into retro controller or sitting into an Altoids tin and making a computer of it this new version includes wireless LAN which is something that logically been asking for since the original Pi Zero came out and this lets you connect to your Wi-Fi at home.  

 Raspberry Pi Zero Hardware:

     The Raspberry Pi zero. Tiny little Raspberry Pi computer this is based on:

• A Broadcom BCM 285 system on a chip 
• which contains at arm CPU or 32-bit CPU running at 1 gigahertz running the arm 6 instruction set.
•  On the chip  core for GPU running at 250 megahertz
• But in fact despite the board   isn't actually the Broadcom BCM 285.
•  It is actually the 512 megabytes of ddr2 ram
•  PI's the RAM is staff on top of the processor 2 chips on top of each other
• The micro SD card slot which we put your micro sd card in to store your operating system and your programs.
• Data on the board we've got a mini HDMI socket offering up to a 1080p video at 60 frames a second  
•  Two micro USB connectors want to connect power to the board and one for connecting USB peripherals other than
• Actual headers for 40 GPIO pins down on the back here and we've also got headers here to allow us to connect composite video.
•  A reset switch if we wanted to but other than that that is the zero there's no s net connector there's no Wi-Fi anything .

Family Ties:

       The overall Raspberry Pi family and order of release the Raspberry Pi model one B plus, the Raspberry Pi 2 model B, the Raspberry Pi zero and the Raspberry Pi model B and if nothing else it shows us just how tiny the Raspberry Pi 0 really. Order of release in terms of pi evolution we should really switch them around and that's because the Raspberry Pi 0 shares a system on a chip shares its CPU with all the Raspberry Pi 1 models so both of them have a BCM – 835 CPU it assisted. All the Raspberry Pi model ones it right at 700 megahertz was in the write-up idea it runs at up to 1 gigahertz the Raspberry Pi 2 and has a BCM - 836 at a 900 megahertz quad-core processor and the Raspberry Pi 3 as a BCM - 837 that's a quad core 1.2 gigahertz processor so in terms of Pi evolution the Raspberry Pi 0 is a faster but cut-down version of the Raspberry Pi model 1 followed an evolutionary terms by the rise with Pi 2 and the Raspberry Pi 3.

Setting Things up:

        The Raspberry Pi zero and to plug in the SD card like that and it's all raring to go and to be connected up now if you haven't purchased your Raspberry Pi 0 with a car with an image already on it. We've got available which is the 2016 version of then unzip the file. We'll use a utility called win32diskimager a free utility to write image to my SD card and note that you need at least an 8 gigabyte SD card for the latest full version of the raspbian operating system.

How to use Raspberry Pi Zero: 

• Once you've got a SD card in your pie with an operating system on it.
• You then need to plug in all the requisite hardware for start you're going to need a power supply.
•  The standard micro USB connector we also need to connected HDMI
• Now offered on the PI 0 people will use an adapter like this it came in both of our kids this would plug .
•  Connect your HDMI lead in there that's a bit bulky and leads with micro in fact mini HDMI on about micro HDMI. 
• Mini HDMI we have those leads around all the time. 
• To plug that in directly that'll go to my monitor.
•  We also need a means of controlling, we connect this into this adapter that came in the PI HUD kit also own the primer Oni kit and that will also connect.

Raspbian Demonstrator:

      Booting into the raspbian operating system if you didn't yourself directly install grass P into the card.

• You would first have arrived on your first boot up the noobs installer and then picked the raspberry operating system and then you just seen lots of pretty pictures as raspbian installed but either way you'd eventually arrives.
• The raspbian desktop which is running on our Raspberry Pi zero we control it with my little control pad not.
•  Quite as easy as a mouse but it does work and it overcomes the fact only one USB port on the zero and if we go to the menu can see lots of things there installed in in raspbian.
•  We've got a lots of programming things, we've got library office we could actually launch on this say I don't know a spreadsheet.
•  Why you wonder when a spreadsheet only applies area but it proves a point it's not going to be as nippy as things.
• The raspberry pi 2 all of last week but it certainly will will come up eventually this machine does make you really appreciate the speed of the Raspberry Pi to make sure it's using all the capacity on your SD.
• The standard desktop operating system on the Raspberry Pi on our Raspberry Pi 0 with its price tag of five dollars or four pounds the Raspberry Pi zero.

Embedded Possibilities:

     An incredible small and low cost computer given its lack of connectivity. It's best suited to embedded applications things like robotics and for this it really need some GPIO pins to brings it to more advance features.