The latest addition released by the Raspberry Pi foundation is a camera module, designed to connect to the CSI bus, which is the dedicated camera ribbon connector closest to the Ethernet port.

Now you can do even more with the Raspberry Pi Zero thanks to the addition of a camera connector.

Setting up a Raspberry Pi with yiur camera requires a bit more work and knowhow than simply hooking the pieces up.

The Raspberry Pi Zero board that comes with the camera connector is more formally known as v1.3. It is available from the usual joints at the same $5 price tag.

Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton said it was "through dumb luck" that the same size FPC connector used on the company's Compute Module Development Kit happened to fit perfectly on the right hand ...

Therefore, weâ ve compiled a guide to help you connect a camera module to your Raspberry Pi 5. The Raspberry Pi 5 is one of the most powerful consumer-grade SBCs out there.

Size matters Note that the camera connector is smaller on the Pi Zero, unsurprisingly, so you won't be able to use an existing cable from your normal-sized Raspberry Pi.

To connect a camera to Zero, Raspberry Pi is offering a custom six-inch adapter cable. This will allow for the conversion of the fine-pitch connector format to the coarser pitch utilized by the ...

What makes the news even better, though, is that the new connector is compatible with the recently upgraded Raspberry Pi camera module, which uses a very capable 8-megapixel Sony IMX219 image sensor.