Hunting for a PC deal this Black Friday? How about $5? Because if you have five bucks, you can have the new Raspberry Pi Zero.

Raspberry Pi developers have taken their already very affordable $25 programmable computer and made it even cheaper. As Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton explained in a blog post, "the original Raspberry Pi Model B and its successors put a programmable computer within reach of anyone with $20-35 to spend...but we still meet people for whom cost remains a barrier to entry."

So earlier this year, "we began work on an even cheaper Raspberry Pi to help these people take the plunge," and the team came up with the Raspberry Pi Zero. Made in Wales, the "Zero is a full-fledged member of the Raspberry Pi family," Upton wrote.

The tiny device - Raspberry Pi's smallest form factor ever at 65mm by 30mm by 5mm - runs a Broadcom BCM2835 application processor and a 1GHz ARM11 core that the company says is 40 percent faster than Raspberry Pi 1. It has 512MB of LPDDR2 SDRAM, as well as a micro-SD card slot, a mini-HDMI socket for 1080p60 video output, Micro-USB sockets for data and power, an unpopulated 40-pin GPIO header, an identical pinout to Model A+/B+/2B, and an unpopulated composite video header.

It "runs Raspbian" and popular apps like Scratch, Minecraft and Sonic Pi.

The Zero is on sale now in the U.K at The Pi Hut and Pimoroni and in the U.S. from Adafruit and Micro Center. "We've built several tens of thousands of units so far, and are building more, but we expect demand to outstrip supply for the next little while," Upton wrote.

In the U.K., though, the December issue of The MagPi in the U.K. will come with a Raspberry Pi Zero unit.

The news comes shortly after the Raspberry Pi Foundation teamed up with manufacturing partner Element14 on a new Raspberry Pi customization service for large orders of the microcomputer. Buyers can now customize the board's layout, incorporate additional functionality, redesign the interfaces, and change up the memory configuration to suit their needs.