Raspberry Pi ia credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It is a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The intention of Raspberry Pi Foundation is to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools especially programming. This Raspberry Pi is based on ARM achitecture where it only support ARM based linux OS such as Debian, Arch Linux, and etc where the main programming language is Python.
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Specs:
- Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
- GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
- GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
- 512MB RAM
- Boots from SD card, running a version of Linux
With your creativity, u can use it to build whatever things u want, such as robotic, automation, mediacentres, servers and etc…