This document discusses the Raspberry Pi, a credit-card sized computer that was created by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote teaching computer science in schools. It provides a brief history of how the Raspberry Pi was developed by the University of Cambridge. It also outlines the Raspberry Pi specifications, operating systems, how it works, applications, advantages and disadvantages. The conclusion is that the Raspberry Pi is a better way to provide computer education in India at an affordable price.

1. Raspberry PI
By: Akash Kumar Sinha
Branch:CSE
Reg:
In The Guidances of :
Asst. Prof. Satyabrata Sahu
Dept. of CSE
NALANDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, BHUBANESWAR

2. Contents
• Introduction
– What is the Raspberry Pi?
– History of Raspberry PI
• Specifications
– Hardware
– Software

3. Contents
• How it works?
• Applications
• Advantage And Disadvantage
• Conlusion
• References

4. Image Source: http://arstechnica.com/information-tech...
Introduction

5. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer
that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a
capable little PC which can be used for many of the
things that your desktop PC does, like
spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also
plays high-definition video. We want to see it
being used by kids all over the world to learn
programming.
Source: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs
What is the Raspberry PI?

6. History of Raspberry PI
University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory in
2006, a need for a tiny and affordable computer
came to their minds. Several versions of the early
Raspberry Pi prototypes were designed but were
very limited by the high cost and low power
processors for mobile devices at that time.

7. In 2008, the team started a collaboration with
Pete Lomas(MD of Norcott Technologies )
and
David Braben (coauthor of the seminal BBC micro
game Elite) and formed the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Three years later, the Raspberry Pi Model B was born
and it had sold over two million units within in
two years of mass production.

8. Specification
Source:
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9. Different Models
Raspberry PI
Model-A Model-B
256 MB RAM
1 USB
No Networking
512 MB RAM
2 USB, Integrated USB Hub
10/100 Wired Ethernet

10. Operating System
Official
• Raspbian Wheezy
• Soft Float
Unofficial
• Adafruit
• RaspBMC

11. How it works?
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12. Applications
• Home Automation
• Robot
• Landline
• Education

13. Advantages
 Act as a small web server
 User Friendly
Multi-Tasking
 Energy Efficient

14. Disadvantage
Time consuming
Compatibility
 Not useful for bigger businesses

15. conclusion
Raspberry PI is the better way to bring the
computer education to every corner of the India
where people are not able to affort costly
computer.
And also from a developers point of view it the best
pocket lab for experiment.

16. References
[1] https://sites.google.com/site/mis237groupprojectraspberrypi/home/what-is-raspberry-
pi/pros-and-cons-of-the-raspberry-pi/
[2] http://www.discussionsworld.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=42603/
[3] http://www.raspberrypi.org/about/
[4] http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware
[5] http://www.wired.com/2013/01/raspberry-pi-r2d2/
[6] http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions