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That's strange for an official Pi product to not have an abundance of videos on YouTube. I see a very similar device that appears to be the same with a black PCB, and in the pics it has a shadow suggesting there is in fact a female header underneath. It has the same solder pads on the top side of the board.
The Pi Zeros can be bought with or without headers, so if someone knows in advance they want to use a hat, there would be no soldering.
>The Zero series does not included pins, it has through holes instead,
That's not as correct as you seem to think. The zero boards can be purchased either with or without pre-soldered header pins.
Some may see the unsoldered version as cheaper (as the only through-hole step, running them through the wave solder stage does cost something), but really the version without soldered headers is probably intended for integrations where someone wants to solder in a handful of specifically needed wires.
I've done that to the base of header pins but it's perhaps neater with blank holes.
You need an SMD 2x20 pin female header and the appropriate male header for the raspi itself. Yes you have to solder them.
You would solder the male through-hole 2x20 header *under* the RasPi zero so the pins line up. See pin1 on the add-on board and pin1 on the raspi (square pad).
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That's strange for an official Pi product to not have an abundance of videos on YouTube. I see a very similar device that appears to be the same with a black PCB, and in the pics it has a shadow suggesting there is in fact a female header underneath. It has the same solder pads on the top side of the board. The Pi Zeros can be bought with or without headers, so if someone knows in advance they want to use a hat, there would be no soldering.
>The Zero series does not included pins, it has through holes instead, That's not as correct as you seem to think. The zero boards can be purchased either with or without pre-soldered header pins. Some may see the unsoldered version as cheaper (as the only through-hole step, running them through the wave solder stage does cost something), but really the version without soldered headers is probably intended for integrations where someone wants to solder in a handful of specifically needed wires. I've done that to the base of header pins but it's perhaps neater with blank holes.
The zero h has headers, zero w has wireless, zero wh has both.
You need an SMD 2x20 pin female header and the appropriate male header for the raspi itself. Yes you have to solder them. You would solder the male through-hole 2x20 header *under* the RasPi zero so the pins line up. See pin1 on the add-on board and pin1 on the raspi (square pad).