Introduction to the Raspberry Pi

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1. The Raspberry Pi Take a byte 1
2. What is it? + = 2
3. What is it? + = 3
4. What is it? + = 4
5. What is it? + = 5
6. 6 credit card size single board computer
7. Why 'Raspberry Pi' ? • Fruit name like the old computers ("Apple" and "Apricot") • 'Pi' because Python was considered to be the official programming language 7
8. The Story • First plans in 2006 • Raspberry Pi Foundation founded in May 2009 • in August 2011 50 Alpha-Boards were built • launch on 29th Feb 2012 (one year ago) • one million Raspberry Pis were sold in Feb 2013 8
9. What’s in it? credit card size single board computer price: 35 USD 9
10. What’s in it? • Broadcom SoC • Includes an ARM 700 MHzprocessor • Overclocking, up-to 1 GHz, without affecting the warranty) • VideoCore IV GPU • 512 megabytes of RAM 10
11. How to use it? • You’ll need a bootable SD-Card • USB Power Adapter • Keyboard and Mouse or connect via ssh • (Ethernet cable - optional) 11
12. Operating Systems 12
13. Live Demo 13
14. Start screen 14
15. Raspbian homescreen 15
16. Build games with scratch 16
17. What to use it for? • #1: The XMBC Media Center • #2: A web server for your homepage • #3: Low cost desktop PC • #4: Electronic Playground • #5: Robotics • #6: ... endless Possiblities 17
18. What to use it for? Raspberry Pi in the sky 18 Project by Dave Akerman
20. What to use it for? The Raspberry Pi Supercomputer 20 Project of University of Southampton
21. The App Store 21
22. The MagPi 22
23. Pi day 3/14/2013 ! 23
24. Links and resources • http://www.raspberrypi.org/ • http://elinux.org/RPi_Hub/ • http://www.themagpi.com/ • http://adafruit.com/ 24