Latest Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Has an Easter Egg

Raspberry using X-ray vision

(Image credit: Jeff Geerling)

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W has just been announced worldwide and its secrets are slowly spreading. Courageous Raspberry Pi Jeff Geerling broke his X-ray machine and discovered a hidden secret that could not be seen, a raspberry buried deep in the latest board.

(Image credit: Jeff Geerling)

The $ 15 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is an update to the original Raspberry Pi Zero board list, first unveiled in 2015. The Zero 2 W comes with a quad core Arm Cortex A53 running at 1-GHz, 512MB RAM and a GPU all packed into a new SIP (System in Package) called RP30-AU. This new package is the bespoke Raspberry Pi, its package in the same way as the $ 1 RP2040 enabled Raspberry Pi Pico. Below the RP30-AU is where Geerling found a hidden Easter egg, a Raspberry Pi logo hidden in BGA (Ball Grid Array) under the chip. This is not visible under the board, so unless you have an X-ray machine, or are very good at creating it they will always be hidden.

(Image credit: Jeff Geerling)

The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W retains the same form factor as its predecessors, making it a replacement for smaller projects that require less energy. It has the same level of performance as the Raspberry Pi 3B, but with only half the RAM. Using the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W as a desktop is possible, but control what you expect. This is a small Raspberry Pi for projects that require horse power.

Geerling has a full collection of X-ray images and detailed information about the internal functioning of his latest blog post.