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hey guys Lofton this might not look like much but this is a full-fledged computer that cost $10 so this is the Raspberry Pi 0w now that wonderful name means that not only is this one of these super cheap Raspberry Pi computers which you guys been telling in two videos on forever but this is the 0w version which means it is incredibly cheap but it comes with both Wi-Fi and bluetooth as you can imagine pretend hours you don't exactly get a lot in the bag so this is the Raspberry Pi 0 itself so right in the middle is where we have our memory and our CPU you have a couple of micro USB ports one of which is for power n you have in many HDMI L micro sd the little series of tens along the top you can use to expand with all kinds of things the sky really is the limit with this little guy to give you an idea of just how tiny the Raspberry Pi 0 is this is what it looks like next to an iPhone 7 plus as you can see this is a very very tiny little computer there's nothing stopping you from using the PI 0 W just like this however you may want to consider picking up a case to help protect it now since this is pretty much brand-new there are a lot of cases there specifically made for the W variant however you can't pick up cases for the original Raspberry Pi 0 which hopefully should work with this guy one of the cool parts about the Raspberry Pi ecosystem is there are tons of different accessories in cases to choose from so this is a nice little acrylic case for a Raspberry Pi and also comes with a heat sink this is really really tiny this isn't strictly necessary but it will kind of help keep this guy cool so with all of our pieces preps now it's time to see if I can build a Raspberry Pi case without reading the instruction should be easy enough so after a little bit of fiddling we have our case assembled now the only problem is that the heatsink doesn't quite line up since this isn't made for the W but it's still making a pretty solid connection it should help a little bit something you're going to need is a USB power adapter so the Raspberry Pi runs on microUSB power so as long as you have an adapter that can supply at least 5 volts to the PI you should be good this is a power supply specifically meant for the Raspberry Pi but really this should work with pretty much any micro USB power adapter if you have something laying around for your old phone for example you should be able to just plug it in and have it work something else you might want is a micro USB adapter so not only does it have micro USB for power but also adds a full beta port so for the most part you're probably going to want to pick up one of these which is just a simple microUSB to standard USB but if you want more ports than that you can also pick up a little hub that actually has four full-size USB ports on it something else you might want is a mini HDMI adapter now this isn't strictly necessary if you already have a mini HDMI cable or another adapter but essentially this just plugs right into the port on the Raspberry Pi and will give you a full HDMI out for something like a TV or a monitor last but not least you're going to need a microwave D card now you consider this to be essentially your hard drive for your Raspberry Pi so right now I have an 8 gig card basicially this is where you're going to have your operating system all your files live response where we're installing raspbian now this is a lightweight linux distribution that's specifically meant for the Raspberry Pi and I'll have a link to nolle download it but also full set of tutorial in the description but it's pretty straightforward just load up on an SD card and we should be good to go so if you're using a higher-end Raspberry Pi there actually is a version of Windows that's available how much pretty stripped-down honestly you're probably going to get more use out of some sort of Linux for this guy 2 l's later so we are now up and running with the PI 0w so this version of Linux is fairly basic but we still do have a lot of stuff that you would expect including sums up like a web browser come on little guy you got it go go go go go go go that single core power is also funny you see up here a little neater for CPU usage as soon as you go to even think about opening a page it immediately goes to 100% so as you can see we're putting on up and running so we can scroll a little slowly but this is a proper web browser now comes the real challenge can I actually watch a YouTube video on this guy time for 144p boys oh whoa what has it now it can almost do it it's so close I wonder if there's a way of maybe getting like some sort of plugin or something to kind of help optimize this it's just asking a lot of course you're not going to buy a Raspberry Pi as a YouTube machine so there are a fair few apps pre-installed on the PI so now what do you have a lot of options if you wanna learn how to code but you also have some basic office ads you have chrome have an email client but what's interesting is if there's actually a burst of minecraft for this obviously minecraft is not the most graphically demanding game in the world but still for something that's this tiny I actually will be really did it work wait a minute wait a minute Mellie did it work it works smoothly like sure the graphics have been turned down to pretty much as the basic levels but it's Minecraft it's not like exactly a super graphically demanding game not only does it work with Minecraft my god comes pre-installed on this guy we're obviously asking a lot trying to play Minecraft at 1080p on this guy but the fact that minecraft works at all is cool oh yo it works we're playing Minecraft at 1080p right now Wow all right you know what this is awesome this is worth it almost just if you want to use it as a Minecraft machine for ten dollars this thing is really cool these guys are kind of hard to find right now but I will do my best to find a link to check this guy out in the description I'm curious what do you guys think about this little tiny computer let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one