+++ Sunday 16 November 2025 +++

The tiny Rapsberry Pi Zero 2 W is great
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The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is the second generation of the Raspberry
Pi Zero series.

Measuring only 65mm × 30mm, the Raspberry Pi Zero series are tiny.

Compared to the 'normal' Raspberry Pi boards, the Zero lacks a
wired network connection, it only supports wireless network.
It also consumes less power.

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W features a quad-core 64-bit 1GHz ARM
Cortex-A53 CPU and comes with 512 MB RAM.

The board is not only tiny, it is quite affordable.
In the Netherlands it is sold for about 18 euro.

The small size and the wireless network connection makes that when
running headless, you can place it almost anywhere and it is easily
kept out of sight. As long as there is a wall outlet for the
power adapter close by, and the wireless connection is not obstructed,
any place is fine, like f.e., behind some books on the bookshelf.

Home lab
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The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 is a great addition to your home lab.
Or, depending on your requirements, it can be your entire home lab!

Docker runs fine on it, for testing purposes I have run containers
with services like FreshRSS, Forgejo, on it. Other examples of stuff
I have run on it are TiddlyWiki, and Prosody.

Often the board is powerful enough, and otherwise it can be used
for testing a configuration, and so on.

I own this little board for quite some time now, and have had a
lots of fun with it!


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