Okay, now time to search for some information on the Raspberry Pi Zero. What’s up with it? Why is the production supply so low? Here’s the answer: Raspberry Pi Foundation did not want to scale up the factory floor space required to keep up with the demand for Raspberry Pi Zeros, as it would have competed with their more-expensive Raspberry Pi 3 model’s factory floor space, right at the point in time when they were preparing to deliver their new model in February.
However, at least one good thing came out of this delay. During the hiatus, engineer was able to use the spare time to design in the much-asked-for Raspberry Pi camera connector.
DuckDuckGo raspberry pi zero production availability factory
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/
- Again, I reiterate, because this is important! I searched for this and found it, that means it’s important! The following article shows a photo of a Raspberry Pi Zero being powered by three AA lithium batteries. So indeed, it is definitely possible to use three batteries to power a Raspberry Pi, although you might be safer if you use 4 and the buck/boost switched-mode power supply.
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/zero-grows-camera-connector/
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-3-on-sale/
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/holopainting/
20160603/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light_painting
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/camera-board-comparisons-pi-noir-v1-vs-pi-noir-v2/
Oh yeah, I also have to note. One major caveat with the Raspberry Pi camera. The camera has an adjustable focusing lens; however, it is glued to the infinite focus position by default, so closer objects will tend to be out of focus.
Oh, very important comment:
This is after all intended for experimentation and tinkering and it is not like you are going to destroy a £10K professional lens and camera system. All I can say is that the £10K cameras do not produce images that are £10K significantly better than the RasPi.
So, after all, it turns out that it doesn’t make economic sense to buy those DSLR cameras when there are cheaper solutions available, with the exceptiono of the high-quality lens.
Yes, this time I succumbed to including Unicode characters in my quote.
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/whats-that-blue-thing-doing-here/
More links on the Raspberry Pi Zero.
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/pi-zero/
20160603/https://www.raspberrypi.org/magpi/new-pi-zero-now-with-added-camera-port/
Okay, so this kind of introduces a problem, here. The Raspberry Pi Zero is apparently just one model, well, the Raspberry Pi Zero. But based off of the manufacturing run you buy, you may end up getting something slightly different. In one case, you get a fine pitch connector for the Raspberry Pi Camera, but in another case, you don’t. Version 1.3 is apparently the quantifying information for the latest model of Raspberry Pi Zero that has the fine pitch connector for the Raspberry Pi camera. Oh yeah, indeed, the cost of the Raspberry Pi camera in US Dollars is $25.