Excited to be unable to buy one of these for the next 3 years!

9:51 A wild Chris appears! I love it when tech KZfaqrs support and reference each other. Such a healthy community.

This will fit perfectly for purposes where ESP32 doesn't cut it (you need a general purpose OS for flexibility in your project), and a full Raspberry Pi is an overkill (either from compute or cost perspective). For e.g. as an infra/SRE guy, I want to use half a dozen of Pi Zero 2 to drive (old/salvaged) LCD screens all around my home to display various dashboards & notifications, so I can spend time with my family better without having to constantly check my phone or run to desk intermittently to check for incidents. If I can actually get my hand on any of those, that is...

To me, this is just highlighting how late the release version of 64bit RasPiOS is! Now there is even a Zero-sized board that could benefit from it (with care about RAM usage).

That's awesome! Raspberry Pi and Framework are basically the only technology companies I can genuinely get excited about right now, so it's awesome seeing them continue to throw everything they have at their mission statement.

You, Explaining Computers and ETAPrime all announced the board at the same time lol. Can't wait to get one

ETA prime got it stable at 1.3 with heat sink. Can’t wait to buy a few of these 😄

A new Pi Zero, yes! Also a (somewhat custom CPU) I see hints to the Raspberry Pi 5 or 6 having an in-house CPU design, with a bunch of features.

Nice job on the x-ray microscope images, I have a GE Nanomex at work that we use for failure analysis, it's amazing how useful that kind of detailed imaging of the internal structure of a PCB can be.

I remember the Amiga 100 had signatures of Jay Miner, Dave Dean and the paw print of Miner's dog on the inside of the case.

Heh. Your channel and Explaining Computers channel - along with ETA Prime's channel of course - are the only KZfaq channels I watch regarding anything microcontroller. You for the clustering/Pi-based stuff, ETA Prime for the microcontroller gaming stuffs, and Chris at Explaining Computers because he's got a comfy feel like I'm watching a BBC educational program from the 80s. I'm lucky that the Overland Park, KS Microcenter is about 2 miles from my house but they're always sold out of the Raspberry Pi 8GB I want.

Its now 2024 and the pi zero 2w is still the best pi showing the spirit of what pi should be. The pi 5 is nice, but too expensive so you may aswell buy an n100 mini pc at that price.

This is the only channel where I click the thumbs up button before watching the video - well done as always Jeff

Ordered one the moment it was available. Not as interesting as the Pico, but still, $15 for a reasonably powerful computer messes with my 8-bit brain. Good job with the x-ray. I bet they thought it might take longer for that one to be discovered.

Jeff, I like your channel very much. I also like EC's. I'm very glad to see you give him a mention in support. Glad to see you reinforce another rather than compete against.

This is great! I love the Pi 0W for low-power projects that need more than a microcontroller. The 02W's extra power will be great for some of my projects that need just a little more oomph improve responsiveness.

On the original Pi Zero W it made a difference to disable USB power. You might try that too, if you're looking to present minimum power requirements. I used a Pi Zero W in a "Linux on Solar power" project. It turned everything off and only woke up every minute to record solar power stats from the Solar Charge Controller.

I am so excited to get my hands on one of these. My original Zero W's are still going 3 years strong outside in the Florida heat!

Thanks for taking power measurements! I gotta get my hands on one of these; I use a Pi Zero to drive one of the HQ cameras in an astrophotography setup (with some complicated USB network trickery to connect it to the main Pi 4 running the whole setup) and download/transfer times for each long exposure are pretty atrocious on the original Zero. A beefed up CPU would probably really help here!

i have an 8 gig pi4 and i wanted a pi zero for a while now. I have ordered my pi zero2 online and in Hungary it was ~17 USD +VAT. I am happy that these are available in such a small country on launch day! Big thumbs up for that for the retail network : )

Oooo! Very pleased the zero got an update! Disappointed by the fact it only has 512mb RAM although ultimately it’s going to depend on the use.

Great video. Unfortunately the increased heat kills it for me. I love my Zero W and that I don’t need a fan, heatsink or heatsink case for it. I use my zero as a wireless AirPrint server, Flic bluetooth server and HDMI-CEC bridge. It gets its power from my ordinary powered USB-hub. No additional power supply needed.

It's official, Jeff is the MKBHD of Raspberry Pi, getting all the new stuff before the release

Heh, I just barely got my first Pi 0 W and was thinking today that it was getting decently old, then bam, new version! Hope I can get my hands one one, seems great.

This is perfect for my needs! A while back, PRUSA of the MK3S fame released a guide to attach a Pi Zero directly to their Einsy RAMBo board in a seamless case solution. Just one problem: the Zero could run OctoPi okay by default, but attaching a camera caused things to explode in a hurry. Even with the same amount of memory, the 02 should have more than enough processing power to run OctoPi with a camera streaming at the same time. I'm sold!

Jeff does great impression of Chris 👏

Love your bloopers Jeff! Thanks for adding them.

Finally! Yes it would have been much better with 1Gb of RAM but I'm not going to complain. Ever since faster Pi's became a thing sufficient power in the smaller form factor versions to actually be useful as something more than a glorified microcontroller has been a glaring omission. Now if the Raspberry Pi foundation could finally, finally, come out with an "A" model that contains the Pi 4 SoC I'd be delighted! No, no, no, the Compute Module is not a reasonable alternate for those wanting a Zero with a bit of 'grunt' or an "A" of equivalent power to the Pi 4. Once you have factored in the inevitable IO board it's too expensive for most people's projects and when coupled to any IO board that has a useful range of ports you end up with something larger than a Pi "B" anyway. PS If there really is to be no "A4" I would really appreciate the option to buy "B4s" with the connectors and GPIO supplied separately. Being able to ignore what you don't need or mount connectors remotely would be a real boon to those of us who are forever disordering stuff from their new Pi's.

got mine today so now i have every version of the zero

Holy crap, I thought I'd never see v2 of this

Hi from the UK, another great video Jeff. Knowing it can run 64 bit is incredibly useful. I run either Ubuntu (64 bit only) or Raspberry Pi OS 32 64 bit on my Pi 4Bs depending on the use case. The 512 MB RAM is likely to be a limiting factor but in time hopefully falling memory prices will give us a 1 GB version. For £13.50 at the Pi Hut in the UK it is priced cheaply enough that it can be bought to just ‘play with’. Looking forward to the next video.

I'm with ya on usb-c. Kinda annoying having to solder my own USB with C connector onto my PI Zeroes. I get that it's probably cheaper and you don't get high-speed USB but it saves so many headaches as I only have usb-c hubs that provide power, data and network than I've ever owned that are micro compatible.

I always learn so much from your videos. I just bought a Zero 2 W from Adafruit while they are in stock and 1 to a customer. Here today, gone tomorrow, I'm sure.

I want to know, which is better for retro gaming, Banana Pi Zero, or Raspberry Pi Zero 2?

Hello Jeff, nice video as usual! :) I paused mid video to order one, should be shipped soon :) I like that with the raspi foundation, you don't expect anything, then boom! new board! However, it is becoming more expensive and difficult to try to "catch em' all"... anyways, that is a great new board, will be perfect for HQ cam builds! In order to compare efficiency, it would be interesting to compare the energy used for a fixed compute task. For instance, transcoding a X Gb file on both, and see the Wh consumed. The zero 2 might draw 2 times more, but for much shorter (less than half the time) , thus using less overall energy. But i think that the idle power draw will still keep a place for the original zero W on battery.

Interesting food for thought, but not as much as CM4, IMO, which offers full Pi functionality + a wide variety of carrier boards, a small form factor, and lots more bang for admittedly a lot more bucks. But, how much is one's time worth, while building a project? Good call on Radxa's competitor. Fell for the specs of their Rock P4b a few years ago, especially with it having the M.2 NVMe connection. But. alas, just as you mentioned, their OS wasn't stable, it was plagued with bugs, and there was only a small specialized volunteer support community. Even after investing into building a custom aluminum case, w/Noctua cooling, I was forced to give up in frustration, When it comes to Linux, I'm more of a Redshirt Jeff kinda guy, enough brains to be dangerous and constantly getting into trouble. So, my $300 ROCK P1 4b project has only been collecting dust on the shelf for 2 years. Lesson burned in memory. Fooled me once...

I am a big fan of your content. Your approach settles well with me. Thank you very much!

LOL... Dude I love love love your channel. Great 👍🏾 man. I've watched this a few times now and I just love how down to earth and real you are.

Thank you so much for keeping red shirt out of this video. I think he and I would have issues if you let him "test" a zero 2.

I’ll totally buy some to replace the zeros I already have.

Would love to see a video on how you got this x-ray!!! With the holidays around the corner I was thinking of acquiring a Roku 4K but was hoping there might be an SBC you could recommend which would play videos as well as a Roku 4K using a Linux distro.

I really love the bloopers at the end. Keep up the good work.

Preordered a Zero 2 W for ~18$ in a local store in Europe. Can't wait to put my hands on it.

Please revisit Webcam Project on Zero 2 🙏. Is higher resolution possible or more FPS or something like that maybe there is less latency idk?

This is so cool. Thank you for taking a look at power consumption. :)

My face, as a south american follower, receiving the notification at 3 am: 8) half a gb is perfectly fine for a $15 board...

just orderd 2 from pihut will be here tomorrow .. 4 cores will deffo help ..:) cheers for jeff and chris and eta for the pi bomb i got this morning lol

Much love to Jeff and Red-Shirt Jeff. Allways love the content and get a big kick from the outtakes.

It would be awesome if you got some Radx boards to try out. I've got their Rock Pi 4 which has 4 lanes of PCIe Gen 2 (in M.2 form factor), USB 3.0 on die, built in eMMC, and AES acceleration.

I am dead at the explaining computers at the end. 🤣

For me who lives in Australia $15 isn't even a "suggestion", it's just a dream. My pi zero was around $35...

I now feel the strong urge to make a gaming handheld with this

I signed up for the MagPi magazine just to be able to get my hands on one of these. It arrived via the mail on Friday. I loaded up RetroPie on it, and it would not run. It kept crashing, would not connect to wifi, or it would just not boot. Then I saw that the weekly builds support the zero 2, not the stable release. So I used that... And, man, this thing can emulate those old games much better than the original. Even some more intensive play station games run with a little overclocking (1300), but it does get hot. That was a neat Easter Egg there with the raspberry logo.

We need a Pi waitlist waitlister to go add an email to all of the waitlists, collect the emails when they come in stock and buy one. I *might* get another Zero 2 W that way this decade.

great, never heard about the channel, but subscribed as I am sub of computers explained. well done and explained.

Pedantic point: the RAM isn't "inside the same chip". It's inside the same package. A chip = a die. Like the M1 it's a multi-chip package (only 3D not 2D).

Hi, Coughin. I'm Dad. Interesting about the low overclock margins. I guess there's just not much thermal headroom even if you add a heatsink and fan; plus if you're going that direction, you're probably better off with a Pi 3A+ than a Zero 2 W anyway.

Dont know why but I love thee videos. You got yourself a sub, keep it up!

I can't believe the power you can get for $15. Modern computers are amazing!

Fantastic piece of kit.... Aside for the lack of RAM. Seriously tho, I am almost positive that the VAST majority of ppl would have been perfectly fine spending an extra 5 bucks to have a Gig of RAM instead of the 512MB. Should have done that & just increased the cost a bit. The 3B had a Gig, so why not this?

I'm so glad I bought a handful of PiW's last month...

This is such an excellent video. I nearly didn't watch it due to the click bait title. Subscribed so I can see your Null2 build!

Woke to yours and @ExplainingComputers new videos on the new RPi0w-2 this morning. Best day in a while.

This was HILLARIOUS! Right after the "Outtro and outtakes," with the reference to Christopher's channel, the video stream went RIGHT INTO his Explaining Computers "Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: We have a new Pi!" video. I literally laughed out loud. Enjoyed BOTH of your videos on this. Shame they didn't put 2GB on the new chip. Really cripples it when you want to do some processing on-chip before sending over the network.

One of my ongoing interests is seeing if I can do everyday user stuff on the smallest computer possible. I’m going to try this. Can I watch a video? Write my stuff (word processing only)? Connectivity, etc? I think I’ll try it with this version now. We’ll see. It’s just one of my weird hobbies. Will try a zero2 null build - when they’re available.

Jeff a nice video again. Definitely a big upgrade for the original Pi Zero. I wonder if you run a camera with an RTSP stream thru the raspivid command? Would it use only one Core and would it benefit from the better performance? Less video lag would be a great benefit.

Managed to order one right away this morning in the UK. Can't wait!

Wonderful! Finally a pi zero W that can handle all my dashboards. Wonderful small thing for running my smarthome display + dashboards

I got lucky and ordered mine from Pimoroni, it was in stock as of late afternoon 29th October. I'm going to use it as a faster but still cheap Pi-Star platform for my digital ham radio modes. It will be nice to have enough power to run DMR, DStar and System Fusion all at once without the Pi bogging down.

Wooo, new videos from Jeff, Chris at Explaining Computers and Liz from Blitz City DIY! It's a happy Thursday!

At 7:56 - hah, I had to re-watch and pause this to get the full laugh, it somehow seemed so natural...

When all this shortage thing finish...if it ends, I will buy 2 of them and build my megadrive cart pi and SNES pi cart, I already built a nespi cart with a zero before covid 19 and a Neo Geo cart with pi 3b and the Neo Geo X stick, both very cool looking and working Great.

Can't wait for your next video regarding the handheld!

Hey, looks like it might be time to add a redundant pi-hole finally. Been using the OG pi zero w for my primary pi-hole for years and I love it.

You mentioned the Kubernetes cluster; I just made a docker swarm cluster using 3 RPi Zero 2 W. The catch is that you will need to use ARMv7 as your base image for your containers. But it's incredible to see such a tiny PCB perform much. 😁

That's why it's called an MSRP. (Manufacturer's SUGGESTED Retail Price) But now-a-days it could mean. (Mean Scalpers Ripoff Price.)

I just ordered 2 of these, I’m excited to play around with it soon.

The original Commodore Amiga 1000 also had the designers' signatures inside its case...

It is not "Strange behaviour", when we use a machine over its spects..... It is normal behaviour according to how we treat to them. I'm an engineer & do the same every time. Good job.

35 bucks for a PI would be a dream here. They start at 70 and even the smallest RPi4 is 80 bucks. Using it for my 3D printer (Ender 3 V2), it should speed up the printing process and precision to another level. The logo under the chip is fun though :) I snatched on at release date though, maybe I just buy 2 more?

Thanks for show us the Zero2! I have original Zero W running my DNS server and went with it over a full Pi because I liked the smaller power usage with it running non-stop, so that was nice to see you captured the 2's power as well. I am curious thou how did you get the speeds for a wired connection, should I assume you connected an USB to Ethernet adapter to it or is there another option to add a wired connection to the Zero I have overlooked? 👀

3:55 wow what an amazing easter egg

1) to get around using swap, enable ZRAM. That should help a smidge. 2) Zero 2 W lacks an "AV" Composite pinout which can be a deal breaker for some retro projects. Cheers.

They really should have kept the Pi 3 up, all things considered. For people who don’t need a full Pi 4 but want something 64 bit. This Pi zero 2 kinda fills that niche, but the .5 gig ram is kinda limiting.

I really hope you will never stop being Jeff Geerling. :P

I have been using a Pi Zero with my alarm system to send SMS Stuart updates with an SMS hat. Works great.

I love the Pi Zero W, and been waiting for a potential Zero 2 W, I'm so happy, I must have one, not sure what I'm gonna do with it yet though.

We need all the high-brow computer KZfaqrs to do a video together... How well can you sing "Imagine," Jeff?

That's nice! I can't wait to get mine! The old one is lovely, but this one si simply better!

Great Content, I hope your channel is taken to another level so you can do bigger and better, tests with PI's

Ι have built with Pi zero ,a retro game system inside a NES cartidge.i think the new Zero will be a good upgrade for it

"this is the RPI Zero 2 W. Its our next product that will always be out of stock, and have limits of 1 per customer, just like the rest of our product line "

Really excited about these new units, I can't wait to give one a shot, but I am a little worried about how available they're going to be, CM4s and the normal Zero W are both still very hard to find due to limited supplies, and if anything adding a new unit to their product catalog will only hurt that further unless they're also seriously upgrading their manufacturing capacity.

You are making us to want at least 1 of these. Cool channel. Thanks, Bro! Interesting Strato behind you (",)

I think there should be a moratorium on all new Raspberry Pi products until they actually get them on the market again. Tired of seeing reviews for products that will not be in stock until the next version is available and out of stock.

Hmmm.... I have an old Pi Zero that I built into a NES cartridge... Maybe I should get the upgraded version of the Pi Zero and swap the Pis out... Always fun using a game cartridge as a game console, lol.

Uhh can't wait to get one of those for my Retroflag GPi CASE. The original Zero just struggles emulating a lot of old consoles to this will be great!

10:30, mr. Transporter promoting his new tech, nice

Trying PiKVM on this new Zero 2 should be interesting.

Can’t wait to see the Pi 5