Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W (Wireless / Bluetooth) 2021 (RPi Zero 2W)

You know what I love? I love that we live in a world where I need a computer the size of a stick of gum to tell my Christmas lights when to turn on and off. Because flipping a switch is too much work for modern humans. But you know what? This little Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is perfect for that kind of beautiful nonsense. Under THIRTY bucks. THIRTY bucks for a computer that has more processing power than the entire Apollo program, and I'm using it to make my inflatable Santa wave at the neighbors. The engineers at MIT are rolling over in their graves. The ones who are dead, anyway. The live ones are probably doing the same thing with theirs. This thing is smaller than a deck of cards but somehow packs in WiFi, Bluetooth, and enough computing muscle to run whatever half-baked automation project pops into your head at 2 AM. Want to spoof MAC addresses? Sure, why the hell not? Want to build a retro gaming console? Go nuts. Want to monitor your pet hamster's exercise routine and post the data to a spreadsheet? This little sucker will do it without complaining. And it actually WORKS. Right out of the box. No driver hell, no tech support runaround, just plug it in and watch it go. It's almost disappointing how reliable it is—I was looking forward to a good three-hour rage session troubleshooting drivers. Bottom line: If you need a tiny, cheap, wireless computer for your questionable projects, this is your guy. Five stars. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a doorbell to rig up with facial recognition.

Good for very minimal apps

I make my own DNS for my home wifi , this Raspberry Pi became my door to the clean internet with no tracking and no ads

I wanted to set up a pihole and this served that purpose perfectly. Great purchase, good quality, and was able to do exactly what I needed to do with it.

A bare bones R Pi Zero 2 W; no case, no header, no TF card, no cables. It was a little pricey, but as RPi's are concerned, it's been difficult to find them in stock, so it's a supply and demand issue. I purchased bare bones like this because I am using it with a larger hat that provides power and cannot fit in a standard case. As for the unit, everything was clean and my header pins soldered easily. USB and HDMI connectors plugged crisply. So far the AMP-PRO hat that I got runs fine. Volumio booted from a TF card just fine. Activity LED twiddles. I haven't tested out any data on HMDI or USB yet. If there is any issue, I will update the review.

Bought for a project to output video to an analog TV. Video output 12 pin. Gpio 18 Does not work as a video output. I checked this output. It can be programmed to output digital signals. That is, the output is working, it just does not output video. enable_tvout=1 sdtv_mode=0 hdmi_ignore_hotplug=1 Commented out all unnecessary lines in the config. It doesn't help. I also tried old firmware. There is information on the Internet that the video output doesn't work in new firmware. /dev/fbo Tried to record noise into framebuffer. Still no edges.Tried three different TVs. Which were pre-checked. Tried to look at the signal with an oscilloscope. No signal. From which I conclude that the board cannot work with an analog video output. The manufacturer is misleading when it says otherwise. I am adding to the review. There is an error on the board and in the instructions. The manufacturer must fix it. The output called TV is actually ground. And the AB output is the composite output. I'm still removing one star.

nice board to use as a pi-hole, never had an issue

Not much to say except it worked great for my ShariPi Allstar build.