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The Spectrum Next has a 40 pin (20x2) male header to which a Raspberry Pi Zero (RPi0) can be connected. It is labelled  [[Circuit_Diagrams#Accelerator_Board|Accelerator Board]] on the main board.
  
Current Public Stable Release: 0.99D
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The RPi0 has a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC with an ARMv6 core, a Videocore 4 GPU, and its own 512 MB memory and HDMI output. It has its own SD card from which it boots.
  
Current Public Stable Patches: NONE
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[[Pi:NextPi]], the dedicated Linux distro for the Raspberry Pi 0 in the Next does not support the WiFi on the Pi0W.  At this stage the Raspberry Pi cannot be used as a network interface for the Next.
  
Current Private Testing Patches: 2M
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== Attaching a Raspberry Pi Zero ==
  
Current Private Testing Release: NONE
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To connect the RPi0 to the Spectrum Next, a 20x2 pin female header needs to be attached on the underside of the Pi:
  
 
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Planned Changed for [[Pi:Next|Next Release]]
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Rpizerotop.jpg|RPi0 top
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Rpizerobottom.jpg|RPi0 bottom
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SpecNextBoardAcceleratorHeader.jpg|Male 40 pin header
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SpecNextBoardAcceleratorFitted.jpg|RPi0 fitted
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Revision as of 23:41, 7 October 2019

The Spectrum Next has a 40 pin (20x2) male header to which a Raspberry Pi Zero (RPi0) can be connected. It is labelled Accelerator Board on the main board.

The RPi0 has a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC with an ARMv6 core, a Videocore 4 GPU, and its own 512 MB memory and HDMI output. It has its own SD card from which it boots.

Pi:NextPi, the dedicated Linux distro for the Raspberry Pi 0 in the Next does not support the WiFi on the Pi0W. At this stage the Raspberry Pi cannot be used as a network interface for the Next.

Attaching a Raspberry Pi Zero

To connect the RPi0 to the Spectrum Next, a 20x2 pin female header needs to be attached on the underside of the Pi: