Made In Wales: Raspberry Pi launch new £4 computer and they are giving it away free!

Raspberry Pi Foundation, the U.K.-based nonprofit which makes bare-bones micro computers has just launched its cheapest computer to date, costing a mere £4 – the Zero is 40 percent faster than its big brother Raspberry Pi 1.

The new computer is so cheap Rasberry Pi are giving the ZERO away for free in monthly magazine MagPi which costs £5.99

The ZERO which is made Bridgend, South Wales consists of a small motherboard and a processor, sockets which allow a user to plug in a keyboard and monitor.

It also has a USB data port and sockets for Wi-Fi, power and video, and a micro-SD card slot for extra memory.

It runs on a version of the Linux operating system, Raspbian, which when installed opens a Windows-style graphic interface with a basic desktop and menu, with access to programs and settings.

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Rasberry Pi say:

“Because the only thing better than a $5 computer is a free computer, we are giving away a free Raspberry Pi Zero on the front of each copy of the December issue of The MagPi, which arrives in UK stores today.

Russell, Rob and the team have been killing themselves putting this together, and we’re very pleased with how it’s turned out.

The issue is jam-packed with everything you need to know about Zero, including a heap of project ideas, and an interview with Mike Stimson, who designed the board.

The original Raspberry Pi Model B and its successors put a programmable computer within reach of anyone with $20-35 to spend.

Since 2012, millions of people have used a Raspberry Pi to get their first experience of programming, but we still meet people for whom cost remains a barrier to entry.

At the start of this year, we began work on an even cheaper Raspberry Pi to help these people take the plunge.”

Since 2012, millions of people have used a Raspberry Pi to get their first experience of programming, but we still meet people for whom cost remains a barrier to entry.

At the start of this year, we began work on an even cheaper Raspberry Pi to help these people take the plunge.”

The Spec:

+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