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Introduction to Raspberry Pi

In this section, we will be introducing you to Raspberry Pi, which is a completely functional computer built on a single circuit board:

Figure 28: A Raspberry Pi, Model 3B; source: www.wikipedia.com

Equivalent to the size of a credit card, this single board computer offers the following:

1GB RAM
4 USB ports
40 GPIO pins
A full HDMI port
An Ethernet port
Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video
A Camera interface (CSI)
A Display interface (DSI)
A micro SD card slot
A VideoCore IV 3D graphics core
A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU
An 802.11n Wireless LAN
Bluetooth 4.1
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)

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