Bryan Mayland
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The Pi Foundation has released an updated model A! It is a Pi Model 3 B+ except without the Ethernet and only one USB port
They are currently available for $25 and again I am jealous of folks near a MicroCenter store as pishop.us charges $7.45 in shipping, cah'mahn! Their GPIO layout is the same so that's good, but the board is physically smaller so the USB port will be inaccessible inside the standard HeaterMeter 4.3 case. I've got one on order to verify it all fits together properly and I can release a new snapshot with support for booting this device and having it recognized properly. It will use the Pi 2/3 target. I'm not sure there's any benefit to using one of these over a Zero W, which is less than half the cost and is unnoticeably slower when running the HeaterMeter firmware. Updates will be coming to support it though!
- 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 CPU
- 512MB LPDDR2 SDRAM
- Dual-band 802.11ac wireless LAN and Bluetooth 4.2/BLE
They are currently available for $25 and again I am jealous of folks near a MicroCenter store as pishop.us charges $7.45 in shipping, cah'mahn! Their GPIO layout is the same so that's good, but the board is physically smaller so the USB port will be inaccessible inside the standard HeaterMeter 4.3 case. I've got one on order to verify it all fits together properly and I can release a new snapshot with support for booting this device and having it recognized properly. It will use the Pi 2/3 target. I'm not sure there's any benefit to using one of these over a Zero W, which is less than half the cost and is unnoticeably slower when running the HeaterMeter firmware. Updates will be coming to support it though!