Raspberry Pi – Introduction (Introduction)

Raspberry & Box, Google sources
Raspberry & Box, Google sources

What is Raspberry Pi?

Raspberry Pi , often abbreviated name  Raspi , is a single board computer ( single-board circuit ; SBC) which is about the size of a credit card that can be used to run office programs,  computer gamesAnd as a media player to a high-resolution video. Raspberry Pi was developed by a nonprofit foundation, Raspberry Pi Foundation, which fronted a number of developers and computer scientists from the University of Cambridge, England. The idea behind the Raspberry Pi started from the desire to print a new generation of programmers. As mentioned in the official website of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, Eben Upton that time, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang, and Alan Mycroft, of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory have concerns look increasingly decline in membership and the number of students who want to study computer science. They then set up a foundation Raspberry Pi along with Pete Lomas and David Braben in 2009. Three years later, the Raspberry Pi Model B enters mass production. In its first launch in late February 2012 in a few hours already sold 100. 000 units. In February 2016, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that it had sold 8 million Raspi devices, making it the biggest-selling device in the UK. (Source Wikipedia)

Hardware Raspberry Pi
Hardware Raspberry Pi

Hardware Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi has two models: models A and B. Generally models Raspberry Pi Model B has a storage capacity  of RAM  is 512  MB . Differences models A and B located on the storage module is used. Model A uses 256 MB of storage and storage model B is 512 MB. In addition, the model B is equipped with a porta  Ethernet  (for  LAN ) that are not included in the model A. Design Raspberry Pi is based on SoC ( system-on-a-chip ) Broadcom BCM2835, which has instilled ARM1176JZF-S processor with 700 MHz,  GPU  VideoCore IV, and a RAM of 256  MB  (model B). Data storage is not designed for use  hard disk or  solid-state drive , but rather rely on the type of SD storage card to run the system and as a long-term storage media. (Source Wikipedia)

Operating System Raspbian
Operating System Raspbian

Operating system on a Raspberry Pi

Raspbian is a computer operating system based on Debian for Raspberry Pi. There are several versions Raspbian including Stretch and Raspbian Raspbian Jessie. Since 2015 has been officially provided by the Raspberry Pi Foundation as the primary operating system for families Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Raspbian created by Mike Thompson and Peter Green as an independent project. Initial building was completed in June 2012. The operating system is still in active development. Raspbian highly optimized for low-performance ARM CPUs Raspberry Pi line.

Raspbian use PIXEL, Pi Improved X-Window Environment, Light as its main desktop environment as the latest update. It consists of a modified LXDE desktop environment and window manager Openbox stackout with new themes and a few other changes. Distribution is shipped with a copy of Mathematica computer algebra program and version of Minecraft called Minecraft Pi and lighter version of Chromium in the latest version. (Translated from English Wikipedia source)

Conclusion

So Raspberry was sort of like a mini computer so and normally using that for development Iot or an extension of the Internet of Things. could be using for some sort of assistant, parking systems, alarm home, Smarthome  and masi more. for now (Nov’18) a new device called ” Raspberry Pi 3 B + “. Gw Make the device anyway, quite dah 64bit and perfomanya better than previous devices.

More information about the Raspberry Pi:

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