Raspberry Pi Zero: The $5 computer is here

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has hit rock bottom. After years of working to lower the cost of hobbyist and educational computing, founder Eben Upton says it can go no further: at just US$5 its latest creation is as cheap is it can make a computer.The $5 Raspberry Pi Zero follows on from the wildly successful Raspberry Pi A, B and 2 computers, which cost $20 to $35.But despite the staggeringly low price, it still has many of the same features, and runs about 40 percent faster than the Raspberry Pi