
To write the OS image to the card I like to use the Raspberry Pi imager. I will try to make this guide as complete as possible but it can’t hurt to know where to find the official manual! While you are at it now is probably a good time to download the user manual from here. Head over to the Armbian website and download the OS image for the Orange Pi Zero Plus, I recommend picking the Jammy variant as it is the latest release at the time of writing this guide. The board was in a sealed antistatic bag as is expected with most circuit boards. The Orange Pi comes in a small cardboard box with some instructions and no accessories.

The later point there being very important because right now the CPU family used in the Raspberry Pi product lines is near impossible to source.īecause people are struggling to get hold of Raspberry Pi’s I’ve seen a big demand in alternative cheap SBC sources. The Orange Pi Zero isn’t a direct clone of the Pi Zero as it uses a different form factor and CPU. The Orange Pi Zero Plus is one of many open source single board computers (SBC) that have sprouted up over the last few years due to Raspberry Pi popularity and in more recent time shortages.
