So, to revive the old thread, i think i like the Pi Zero format much more than the earlier models.
It's a little board that takes a little current, costs some rounding errors, but delivers a full blown computer.
I didn't realize the potential at first, since i kept thinking in terms of "make a cluster out of them". So a dozen Zeroes were packed into a stack, all linked up via crappy OTG ethernet, which was in total quite useless.
But then i started chipping off boards for other projects.
Need a server to monitor city traffic?
Stick a Zero under the table.
Need a brain for a rover project?
Make it's PCB fit a Zero and use that.
As i was working on the rover, i noticed that i was keeping all the code on it, and did all the development right there, on the Pi.
That was the point where i started liking it - each Zero is a project contained within itself, dev and runtime environment included.
And i kept doing it.
Instead of breadboarding a micro or violating an Arduino, just solder an NFC reader to a Zero, and you can develop and debug code for it right at the point where it's used.
Even better, since this thing takes almost no power, is small and is completely self-contained, it's an easy matter to add a powerbank, a smartphone and a pocket keyboard to the mix, and now you are suddenly perfectly capable of working on the same NFC project while sitting on a bench in a park waiting for a certain someone to get the rollerskating out of her system.
All in all, Pi Zero is actually a nice and useful little thingy.
