Raspberry Pi Hardware Reference

Introduction

After receiving your first Raspberry Pi, the first question in your mind is probably “What can this hardware do?” What are its capabilities and limitations? Hardware is the more urgent question because software is so easily altered or replaced.

The one perplexing problem I immediately ran up against when I started out with the Pi was that the hardware information seemed to be scattered. The basic information was accessible and well known, but other important parameters such as GPIO source or sink current limits required research. After researching these questions, I often discovered that the answer was “It depends.” It was the answering of these classes of questions that led to the writing of Mastering the Raspberry Pi.

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