What is a Raspberry Pi? | Tech Tips

The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python. It’s capable of doing everything you’d expect a desktop computer to do, from browsing the internet and playing high-definition video, to making spreadsheets, word-processing, and playing games.
What’s more, the Raspberry Pi  has the ability to interact with the outside world, and has been used in a wide array of digital maker projects, from music machines and parent detectors to weather stations and tweeting birdhouses with infra-red cameras. We want to see the Raspberry Pi being used by kids all over the world to learn to program and understand how computers work.

The Raspberry Pi was created with the goal of education in mind. This ultra-tiny computer was designed to be small and cheap so that schools could easily afford them in order to teach students about computers in the classroom. This is great for two reasons, the first is that it provides extremely cheap access to a computer, and second it is a great tool for learning more about computers (student or not)!

How Does The Raspberry Pi Works:

Here’s how it works: An SD card inserted into the slot on the board acts as the hard drive for the Raspberry Pi. It is powered by USB and the video output can be hooked up to a traditional RCA TV set, a more modern monitor, or even a TV using the HDMI port. This gives you all of the basic abilities of a normal computer. It also has an extremely low power consumption of about 3 watts. To put this power consumption in perspective, you could run over 30 Raspberry Pi’s in place of a standard light bulb!Here’s how it works: An SD card inserted into the slot on the board acts as the hard drive for the Raspberry Pi. It is powered by USB and the video output can be hooked up to a traditional RCA TV set, a more modern monitor, or even a TV using the HDMI port. This gives you all of the basic abilities of a normal computer. It also has an extremely low power consumption of about 3 watts. To put this power consumption in perspective, you could run over 30 Raspberry Pi’s in place of a standard light bulb!
Here’s how it works: An SD card inserted into the slot on the board acts as the hard drive for the Raspberry Pi. It is powered by USB and the video output can be hooked up to a traditional RCA TV set, a more modern monitor, or even a TV using the HDMI port. This gives you all of the basic abilities of a normal computer. It also has an extremely low power consumption of about 3 watts. To put this power consumption in perspective, you could run over 30 Raspberry Pi’s in place of a standard light bulb!

Advantages:

  • This microcomputer is useful for small or home based businesses that run on a smaller budget than bigger companies for you are not required to purchase any special licenses from the Raspberry Pi Foundation to use their product or if you invent new technology that embeds the product. Small business owners can use it to automate any small task, such as using the Pi to run a website ( as long as it does not have a lot of traffic), or use it as a small database and media server... pretty much anything that doesn't require the Windows operating system or other systems that does not support Linux and lots of traffic). Businesses can also save money on buying cooling systems that are required to cool servers.
  • The product does not require the user to have extensive programming experience since it is aimed for the younger generation to learn about programming. Python, the programming language that the Pi uses, is less complex than other languages available. For example, it has better code readability and allows the user to type concepts using fewer amount of lines. Python also has an automatic memory management function. 
  • The product also gives you a lot of room to experiment and turn it into something else that is entirely different.  The SD cards on the board can be easily switched, which allows you to change the functions of the device without spending a lot of time re-installing the software. 
  • The Raspberry Pi is perfect for adaptive technology: it is able to display images or play videos at 1080p high definition resolution to building systems such as digital jukeboxes or prototyping embedded systems. This product makes it possible to build complex and effective products at a cheaper price. The post on "How Companies are using their Raspberry Pi" shows examples of how companies use the Pi to their advantage and " Interesting Raspberry Pi Projects" talks about the interesting inventions people make with the product.
  • The product is energy efficient and provides a greener ethical alternative to small businesses. This small credit card sized product makes it easy to recycle and  does not release as much carbon dioxide emissions into the environment, unlike big servers that require lots of energy and extensive cooling systems. 
  • Development platform: according to the article by Nick Heath on " Raspberry Pi: Five ways business can use it", the Raspberry Pi is a low cost alternative to test any products for software developers and network engineers such as testing firewall designs.

 Disadvantages:

  • It does not replace your computer, since the Ethernet is only a 10/100 and the processor is not as fast, it is time consuming to download and install software and is unable to do any complex multitasking.
  •  Not compatible with other operating systems such as Windows.
  • This product will not be useful for bigger businesses that already have big servers, which would already do everything that the Raspberry Pi does, so it would not be worth it to take the time to get someone to put it together.  

 

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Here’s how it works: An SD card inserted into the slot on the board acts as the hard drive for the Raspberry Pi. It is powered by USB and the video output can be hooked up to a traditional RCA TV set, a more modern monitor, or even a TV using the HDMI port. This gives you all of the basic abilities of a normal computer. It also has an extremely low power consumption of about 3 watts. To put this power consumption in perspective, you could run over 30 Raspberry Pi’s in place of a standard light bulb!Here’s how it works: An SD card inserted into the slot on the board acts as the hard drive for the Raspberry Pi. It is powered by USB and the video output can be hooked up to a traditional RCA TV set, a more modern monitor, or even a TV using the HDMI port. This gives you all of the basic abilities of a normal computer. It also has an extremely low power consumption of about 3 watts. To put this power consumption in perspective, you could run over 30 Raspberry Pi’s in place of a standard light bulb!

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