1 Raspeberry Pi Zero needed for a project- Romania

[stede15]

Dear Raspeberry Pi community,
We are the science team of our highschool and we are currently working on a project for the European Space Agency's CanSat International contest. We designed our project so that it is based on a Raspeberry Pi Board. Unfortunately, the single Raspeberry Pi board that would fit in our project is a Raspeberry Pi ZERO, the only board that is small and powerful enough to power up our mini-satellite. The problem is, that we couldn't find this product anywhere. It's out of stock at every seller. Is there any way we could buy one?

[BMS Doug]

Dear Raspeberry Pi community,
We are the science team of our highschool and we are currently working on a project for the European Space Agency's CanSat International contest. We designed our project so that it is based on a Raspeberry Pi Board. Unfortunately, the single Raspeberry Pi board that would fit in our project is a Raspeberry Pi ZERO, the only board that is small and powerful enough to power up our mini-satellite. The problem is, that we couldn't find this product anywhere. It's out of stock at every seller. Is there any way we could buy one?

Where in Europe are you?

(Probably your only hope in the short term is that someone is willing to let you have their one).

[mikerr]

eBay and pay over the odds, or wait for stock.

[B.Goode]

We are the science team of our highschool and we are currently working on a project for the European Space Agency's CanSat International contest. We designed our project so that it is based on a Raspeberry Pi Board. Unfortunately, the single Raspeberry Pi board that would fit in our project is a Raspeberry Pi ZERO, the only board that is small and powerful enough to power up our mini-satellite. The problem is, that we couldn't find this product anywhere. It's out of stock at every seller. Is there any way we could buy one?

There is no magic answer to making the PiZero available for purchase: other people have asked the Raspberry Pi Foundation about this via these forums and basically the reply is "they will be available when they are available."

But a couple of thoughts...

Firstly - this need not hold up the development of your project. You could develop hardware and code using an older more capable and easily available model of RPi and then substitute the working hardware at a later stage. (Maybe you are already doing this?)

Secondly - where are you? (There is a location field in your forum profile that could be used to provide this information.) You might strike lucky and find a STEM Ambassador or other supporter who might be prepared to lend you the hardware to tide you over the gap in availability.

Do you have to submit the hardware itself as part of the submission? When is the submission deadline?

[QuietZone]

As others have said, get on eBay (or similar) and look around. Expect to pay more than the nominal/optical $5 price.

The point is that the real price (value) of a Pi Zero is well above the nominal/optical 5 dollar mark.

[stede15]

Dear Raspeberry Pi community,
We are the science team of our highschool and we are currently working on a project for the European Space Agency's CanSat International contest. We designed our project so that it is based on a Raspeberry Pi Board. Unfortunately, the single Raspeberry Pi board that would fit in our project is a Raspeberry Pi ZERO, the only board that is small and powerful enough to power up our mini-satellite. The problem is, that we couldn't find this product anywhere. It's out of stock at every seller. Is there any way we could buy one?

Where in Europe are you?

(Probably your only hope in the short term is that someone is willing to let you have their one).

I am from Romania. I have already checked Ebay, AliExpress and other sellers, but the only available Raspeberry Pi Zero Boards are too expennsive and the majority of them are not shiped to Romania or the transport cost is too high.Any ideas?

[stede15]

We are the science team of our highschool and we are currently working on a project for the European Space Agency's CanSat International contest. We designed our project so that it is based on a Raspeberry Pi Board. Unfortunately, the single Raspeberry Pi board that would fit in our project is a Raspeberry Pi ZERO, the only board that is small and powerful enough to power up our mini-satellite. The problem is, that we couldn't find this product anywhere. It's out of stock at every seller. Is there any way we could buy one?

There is no magic answer to making the PiZero available for purchase: other people have asked the Raspberry Pi Foundation about this via these forums and basically the reply is "they will be available when they are available."

But a couple of thoughts...

Firstly - this need not hold up the development of your project. You could develop hardware and code using an older more capable and easily available model of RPi and then substitute the working hardware at a later stage. (Maybe you are already doing this?)

Secondly - where are you? (There is a location field in your forum profile that could be used to provide this information.) You might strike lucky and find a STEM Ambassador or other supporter who might be prepared to lend you the hardware to tide you over the gap in availability.

Do you have to submit the hardware itself as part of the submission? When is the submission deadline?

Yeah, we are already using a Raspeberry Pi type B for programming but it's too large to include in the final project. We have very strict size restrictions. And, as I already said, I am from Romania. Anyway, thank you all for your messages.

[jamesh]

When do you need it? After all, it's only been out a couple of months, so presumably you have been planning to use a larger model for a while. They should start to become more available in the next few months.

[stede15]

When do you need it? After all, it's only been out a couple of months, so presumably you have been planning to use a larger model for a while. They should start to become more available in the next few months.

We need it until the end of February... We started working on this project in late November, early December so we knew about the oncoming Raspeberry Pi Zero, but we failed buying one when it was launched. Of course we are working the software part on an RAspeberry Pi B, but the only board powerful and small enough to fit in the final project is the Pi Zero. We designed our project for that board.

[jgreen71]

I have the Pi0 from this thread: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=132173&p=887023#p887023

If you want it, send me your address so we can figure out postage from the United States.

[stede15]

I have the Pi0 from this thread: viewtopic.php?f=28&t=132173&p=887023#p887023

If you want it, send me your address so we can figure out postage from the United States.

Thank you very much for your message. I sent you a PM.

[jbeale]

Looks like RPi-Zero is $25 plus shipping (from USA) on ebay with 6 units available.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Ze ... SwqrtWmwJf

Impressive that a $5 board is selling for 5x markup! So it's the same as list price on the RPi B+

[stede15]

Looks like RPi-Zero is $25 plus shipping (from USA) on ebay with 6 units available.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Raspberry-Pi-Ze ... SwqrtWmwJf

Impressive that a $5 board is selling for 5x markup! So it's the same as list price on the RPi B+

Not shipping international, so it's useless.

[jgreen71]

Pi0 is on its way! Keep us informed of your progress.

[stede15]

Thank you so much for your help. I'll keep you updated with our work. Thank you again.

[stede15]

Pi0 is on its way! Keep us informed of your progress.

P zero arrived a week ago and it's all fine. Thank you so much!

[on4bgc]

Hi

Send me you're adress if you want a spare pi zero .
Kind regards
on4bgc

P.s. only for this project you may use mine.