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2. Choosing Raspberry Pi Hardware

Guy Hart-Davis

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Now that you’ve planned your Raspberry Pi deployment, your next move is to choose Raspberry Pi computers and the hardware to go with them.

In this chapter, we’ll go through the hardware you’ll typically want for deploying a fleet of Raspberry Pi computers in a classroom. We’ll start with the Raspberry Pi boards themselves before moving along to essentials, including power sources, SD (Secure Digital) cards, and cases. These are all items you’ll most likely need to buy unless your fairy godmother has produced a pallet of Pi ...

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