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Introduction To Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the UK to promote teaching computer science in schools. It uses a Broadcom system on a chip and stores programs on a MicroSD card. Over 11 million units have been sold since 2012 for prices between $5-35. The Raspberry Pi Foundation provides several Linux distributions and supports programming languages like Python and Scratch.

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Introduction To Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the UK to promote teaching computer science in schools. It uses a Broadcom system on a chip and stores programs on a MicroSD card. Over 11 million units have been sold since 2012 for prices between $5-35. The Raspberry Pi Foundation provides several Linux distributions and supports programming languages like Python and Scratch.

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Introduction to Raspberry Pi

 Raspberry is a reference to a fruit naming tradition in the old days of


microcomputers. A lot of computer companies were named after fruit.
There's Tangerine Computer Systems, Apricot Computers, and the old
British company Acorn, which is a family of fruit.
 And of course there's also: BlackBerry, Cherry Corporation (now known as
ZF Electronics), Papaya Studio, etc.
 "Pi is because originally we were going to produce a computer that could
only really run Python. So the Pi in there is for Python. Pi=PYTHON
INTERPRETER
 The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in
the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the
teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries.
 The original model became far more popular than anticipated, selling outside
of its target market for uses such as robotics.
 Peripherals (including keyboards, mice and cases) are not included with the
Raspberry Pi. According to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, over 5 million
Raspberry Pi have been sold before February 2015, making it the best-
selling British computer.
 By November 2016 they had sold 11 million units.
 Several generations of Raspberry Pis have been released.
 The first generation (Raspberry Pi 1 Model B) was released in February
2012.
 It was followed by a simpler and inexpensive model Model A.
 In 2014, the foundation released a board with an improved design
in Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+.
 These boards are approximately credit-card sized and represent the
standard mainline form-factor.
 Improved A+ and B+ models were released a year later. A "compute
module" was released in April 2014 for embedded applications, and
a Raspberry Pi Zero with smaller size and reduced input/output (I/O)
and general-purpose input/output (GPIO) capabilities was released in
November 2015 for US$5.
 The Raspberry Pi 2 which added more RAM was released in February
2015.
 Raspberry Pi 3 Model B released in February 2016, is bundled with on-
board WiFi, Bluetooth and USB boot capabilities.
 As of January 2017, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is the newest mainline
Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi boards are priced between US$5–35.
 As of 28 February 2017, the Raspberry Pi Zero W was launched, which is
identical to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but has the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth
functionality of the Raspberry Pi 3 for US$10.
 All models feature a Broadcom system on a chip (SoC), which includes
an ARM compatible central processing unit (CPU) and an on-chip graphics
processing unit (GPU, a VideoCore IV).
 CPU speed ranges from 700 MHz to 1.2 GHz for the Pi 3 and on board
memory range from 256 MB to 1 GB RAM.
 Secure Digital (SD) cards are used to store the operating system and
program memory in MicroSDHC sizes.
 Most boards have between one and four USB slots, and composite
video output, and a 3.5 mm phono jack for audio.
 The Foundation provides Raspbian, a Debian-based Linux distribution for
download, as well as third party Ubuntu, Windows 10 IOT Core, RISC OS,
and specialized media center distributions.
 It promotes Python and Scratch as the main programming language, with
support for many other languages.
 The Raspberry Pi may be operated with any generic USB computer
keyboard and mouse.
 Other peripherals can be attached through the various pins and connectors on
the surface of the Raspberry Pi.
HOW TO MAKE IT WORK

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