August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
278 pages
6h 1m
English
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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)
Figure 29: ...