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Episode: 2271
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Title: HPR2271: Raspberry Pi Zero W
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2271/hpr2271.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 00:41:19
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This is HPR episode 2,271 entitled Raspberry Pi Zero W and in part on the series Hardware Upgrades.
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It is hosted by Tony H1,212 and in about 6 minutes long and carry a clean flag.
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The summary is an introduction to the new Pi Zero W from the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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Hello I could public radio listeners, this is Tony Hughes in Blupple in the UK again.
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For this episode I'm going to talk about the Raspberry Pi Zero W which I received last week after its release on the anniversary of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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For those who are not in the know, the Raspberry Pi is a single board computer which started off in 2012
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with two USB ports, an Ethernet port, HDMI for video, composite to audio and video out and also 256 mega ram and a 700 megahertz CPU, single core ARM CPU.
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This is morphed over the last few years and the latest iteration of the main board, the Raspberry Pi 3 now, has a quad core ARM 1.2 processor with HDMI composite video audio for USB ports, Ethernet ports, but also now supports Wi-Fi and Bluetooth.
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The Raspberry Pi Zero came out in November 2015 and it's a very very compact little single board PC and it's got USB power, micro USB power, micro USB out only a single one.
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Mini HDMI out and SD card like all of the Raspberry Pi's have for the operating system, but when it was first released that was it, it was a single core, I think it was one gig from the start off.
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So since then there was a second revision of it which added a camera port to make it a bit more usable for hobbyists etc.
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But the community of hobbyists out there have been clamoring ever since it's released for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection.
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There's been loads and loads of different hacks trying to get it onto the internet or to be able to connect to SSH and into it all sorts of things.
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But the biggest thing that community has been crying out for has been Wi-Fi and Bluetooth enable.
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So on the fifth birthday, on the 28th of February, they announced the release of the Raspberry Pi Zero W which does just that.
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They've integrated the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth stack chip from the Raspberry Pi 3.
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Rather than having a hardware aerial to connect to the internet, they've incorporated an aerial that's engraved into the PCB.
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So I received one of these or a couple of these last week, but I haven't got around to playing with it until today.
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So I hooked up my Raspberry Pi Zero to the monitor etc. I have home Wi-Fi here.
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So when it booted, I downloaded the latest version of Raspberry and burned that onto the microSD card installed, inserted that into it, booted up and all booted up fine.
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Initially it did the expanding the card image to take over a whole of the card which was a 16 gig card.
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But after that first booted up, a reboot only took about 30 seconds which 30 seconds to a minute.
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It's pretty good for a 512 memory. So I was quite happy with that.
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Went down to the Wi-Fi connection or to the internet connection.
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It picked up my Wi-Fi signal straight away and I duly connected to it initially because of where I am in the house, where I was testing it out.
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It didn't like connecting to my home Wi-Fi.
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But as fortune have it, I've got a 4G box that I use when I'm on the go.
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I purchased that couple of weeks ago when I was just after I came out of hospital after being loaned one by a friend of mine.
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And it worked great while I was in hospital so I could keep connected.
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So this is the first out scene I gave it. Got that working. Got the Wi-Fi connected to it on the Raspberry Pi.
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And hey ho, I'm on the internet. The Raspberry Pi 0W works fine out of the box. So very happy.
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Not decided what we're going to do with them yet, but I've got a few. We can play with them at the makerspace and I'm also a member of the local Raspberry Jam community.
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So I'm sure some of the young people there can come up with some projects that we can try out using the makeshues of the Wi-Fi.
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So that's it. The Raspberry Pi 0W for me works out of the box with the Wi-Fi.
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So all it is now is to figure out what to do with it. Thanks for listening. Bye.
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