Raspberry pi zero

[Cavecraft]

Can you make an raspberry pi zero yourself without using a PCB, but only wires? And I have an good idea for an new Raspberry pi: A board with the BCM2835 that you can plug into a breadboard and make it easy to make your own raspberry pi, a bit the same as the compute module, but when you can access easily the pins from the BCM2835, then you can wire up the clock crystal, resistors, capacitors, etc. But would it be also possible to run the old versions of raspbian (1.3X) on the raspberry pi zero? That would be nice! Because I like the old look of raspbian.

[joan]

May I ask where you plan to buy the parts?

[fruitoftheloom]

Can you make an raspberry pi zero yourself without using a PCB, but only wires? And I have an good idea for an new Raspberry pi: A board with the BCM2835 that you can plug into a breadboard and make it easy to make your own raspberry pi, a bit the same as the compute module, but when you can access easily the pins from the BCM2835, then you can wire up the clock crystal, resistors, capacitors, etc. But would it be also possible to run the old versions of raspbian (1.3X) on the raspberry pi zero? That would be nice! Because I like the old look of raspbian.

Definitely not the Zero is not Open Hardware, whilst you can not purchase the BCM2835 SoC.

Why not just purchase an older RPi model ?


If you have an older RPi and undertake a fresh install of standalone Raspbian Wheezy by just updating the kernel with rpi-update it may then work in a Zero...

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[DougieLawson]

You can run old versions of Raspbian (don't know why you'd want to) by replacing the kernel and firmware with a modern version that includes the bits needed for hardware support.

Generally, it's better to run the very latest Raspbian and re-engineer your application to run on it.