/diy/ - Do It Yourself

The Raspberrying Pi Zero was a great idea:
- dirt cheap
- same size as your dick
- wifi & bluetooth
- micro USB OTG
- EMC/RoHS compliance
- in production until January 2026

Yet it has a number of moronic idiosincracies:
1. has useless HDMI and camera ports
2. USB ports on the wrong (long) side
3. demands 5V supply

First of all, such a tiny piece of hardware is clearly not intended for desktop and data-center projects. In other words, it doesn't need an HDMI port. Why were they so gay to add a microHDMI instead of letting out its SPI and audio output only?

Camera port is also wasted 99% of the times. Why were they so gay to add a camera connector instead of saving up space, traces, parts, costs?

Then there are those two microUSB prots on the side. Why were they so gay to place them there instead of the short side? That means a normal project cannot take advantage of the small width.

Then there's the gay 5V supply. Yes, I know it is required for proper USB work. But almost everything on a Pi Zero works on 3.3V.

It would have been definitely great if it only required 3V, because a nominal 3.7V battery (ranging from 3.1-discharged to 4.3-charged) would have been enough without need to stepup-stepdown-stepaside-stepmom.

Such a tiny beast is literally inviting you to cute projects. Install it into some old toy. Install it into your sleeve. Install it inside some pipe. Inside the frame of your bicycle. NAY!!! The gay designers decided it had to be 5V microUSB power supply. And on the side. And if you want to push 5V directly in, you have to solder on the PP1/PP6 pads. What. The. Gay. Fuck.

Oh, but there's plenty of third party solutions. Like the JuiceBox, pretty well done. Excep it adds quite the vertical bulk. And it costs $34. Thirty-fucking-four dollars. I bet the designer didn't laugh when Apple demanded $999 for a fuckin monitor stand.

Man, I hate braindamaged products. A small project that could fit in my hat sports HDMI and requires an USB powerbank. WTF.