Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi

On hearing the name you may think that you are going to get something delicious to eat. Raspberry Pi is a low cost computer developed by Cambridge University's computer lab and tech firm Broad com with an aim of launching a low cost educative tool for students. 

Raspberry Pi
Picture showing the credit card sized Raspberry Pi


Raspberry Pi is a low cost computer developed by Cambridge University's computer lab and tech firm Broadcom with an aim of launching a low cost educative tool for students. 
Pi denotes Python. 
It weighs 45gm and it  is just as the size of a large credit card with colored cables.
It has a Broadcam BCM 2835 system-on-chip (SoC) running at 700 MHz.
It is supported by ARM 11 processor. 
It operates on versions of Debian or Fedora Linux but not on the Windows or Ubuntu as those are the x86 operating systems.
Noobs, a compressed zip file can be downloaded to an SD card which offers a choice of other operating systems like RaspBMC, Pidora.
It has 256MB Hynix memory chip beneath which 300MHz Pentium II is present.
You can get a network NGinx or secure a file-repository system using SSH. 
You can run Virtual Network Computing on RP to take control of your home computer from elsewhere in the house. 
Once FreeSwitch is integrated with RP, you can give your callers a menu of options: 
     Press 1 to leave a message, 
     press 2 for my mobile, 
     press 3 to know what I think of trade calls.  
RP is capable of running the software.
RP is a low power-consumer, so, this mini-avatar can be fitted in battery-powered robots.
It now helps control a self-piloting robot-boat across the Atlantic Ocean, on BBC's Springwatch show it counted birds going in and out of bird-boxes and correlating this with temperature, in Kenya it powers cameras that help park-rangers move quickly to catch poachers hunting rhino horns. 
RP is not a substitute for a PC. It is an educational tool, meant to empower GenNext.

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