Waveshare Zero to Pi3 Review

I recently purchased a Waveshare Zero to Pi3 adapter.  I had a couple of Pi zero's laying around not being used because I had to look up the HDMI and USB adapters in order to use them.  One Zero was even so old that it did not have any built in network ability.  I had to use USB memory sticks to add programs to it.  

This next picture shows the Zero adapter in use.

I could not get it to fit my 3D printed case as it is a very tiny bit wider and the memory card jack is in the wrong place.  I might design a modified case with the new memory card position.  It did mount fine on a piece of plastic with the standard raspberry Pi hole spacing.

When I went to test it, the video worked but the USB jacks did not work.  Then I squeezed it a little more and the USB jacks moved a tiny bit and started working.  Even the network jack worked but, to be honest, the Zero is a model 1.3 and it is to slow for browsing online web sites.

The adapter is also missing the audio jack, but most of the time I have to disable audio to run my projects so that is not an issue for me.  Alltogether I love this little adapter as it brought back usefulness to my Zero's.  

I own a raspberry Pi model 1, 2, 3 and 4.  I was surprised whrn I discovered that I needed a HDMI adapter for the model 4!  Now if I can just keep from loosing it!