What is a Raspberry Pi?

Raspberry Pi – From Start to Getting Started

Everybody seems to be talking about the Raspberry Pi these days. So far, you did gather that it is not a fruity pastry, but some sort of low-cost computer board. So, what exactly is it? And how to jump on the bandwagon? Raspberry Pi is low-cost educational computing platform to allow anyone to learn computer programming. Being a single-board computer (SBC) – which means that it can function without any external peripherals like a keyboard or a monitor – the Raspberry Pi is a great board to put inside a box and use it for a single task like controlling a drone or robot or as a multimedia server or weather station. For this reason, the Pi has been adopted by both hobbyists and professionals, and it has found its way into many different projects and products.

The Raspberry Pi

It all started out as an initiative to make programming accessible to people that do not have a lot of money to spend on computers and software. The idea was to create a low-cost educational computing platform to allow anyone to learn computer programming. Things went not as intended, but the Raspberry Pi became highly succesful anyway.

Single-board Computer

Being a single-board computer (SBC) – which means that it can function without any external peripherals like a keyboard or a monitor – the Raspberry Pi is a great board to put inside a box and use it for a single task like controlling a drone or robot or as a multimedia server or weather station. For this reason, the Pi has been adopted by both hobbyists and professionals, and it has found its way into many different projects and products.

In this video the differences between the various versions of the Raspberry Pi are explained, and we show how to set up a working system to get you up and running so you can Pi too.