The Raspberry Pi is a credit card-sized single-board computer that plugs into a monitor or TV. It has various ports including HDMI, USB, Ethernet and more. It uses a Broadcom chip and comes with 512MB of RAM. The Raspberry Pi was designed for education and has various operating systems it can run like Linux, RISC OS and Android. It is commonly used for programming, home theater systems, routers and robotics projects. While similar, the Arduino is a microcontroller board focused on inputs and outputs rather than being a standalone computer.

3. Raspberry pi

4. What is a raspberry Pi?
 A credit card sized PC
 Plugs into a TV or monitor
 Cheap (ish) ~£25 each
 Over 1 million units shipped
 Uses Broadcom BCM2835
 Designed for education!

5. Hardware & connectivity inside the Pi

7. Power
5v micro
USB connector
(Similar to the one on a lot of mobile phones!)

8. A/V (Audio/ViDeo)
HDMI Audio & Video
(works with modern TVs and DVI monitors )

9. A/V (Audio/ViDeo)
HDMI Audio & Video
RCA Video
(works with most
older TVs)

10. A/V (Audio/ViDeo)
HDMI Audio & Video
RCA Video 3.5mm Audio
Standard headphone
socket

11. Connectivity
2 x USB 2.0
ports

12. Connectivity
2 x USB 2.0
ports
10/100Mb
Ethernet

13. Connectivity
2 x USB 2.0
ports
10/100Mb
Ethernet
GPIO
(General
Purpose
Input &
Output)

14. Internals
SOC (System On a
Chip)
Broadcom
BCM2835 700Mhz
& 256Mb /
512Mb RAM

15. Internals
LAN Controller
SOC (System On a Chip)
Broadcom BCM2835 700Mhz &
256Mb / 512Mb RAM

16. Internals
JTAG
(debug ports)
LAN
Controller
SOC (System On a Chip)
Broadcom BCM2835
700Mhz & 256Mb / 512Mb
RAM

17. Internals
JTAG
(debug ports)
LAN
Controller
SOC (System On a Chip)
Broadcom BCM2835 700Mhz & 256Mb /
512Mb RAM
CSI
(camera interface)

18. Internals
JTAG
(debug ports)
LAN Controller
CSI
(camera interface)
SOC (System On a Chip)
Broadcom BCM2835 700Mhz
& 256Mb / 512Mb RAM
DSI
(display
interface)

19. Storage
SD Card Slot
(supports SD cards
up to 32GB)

20. Camera

21. Operating Systems For Raspberry Pi

22. Linux
Three different flavours of Linux are available officially: Pidora (based on Fedora);
Archlinux (a DIY OS); and Raspian (Debian).
Raspian is the recommended OS for everyone new to the Raspberry Pi

23. RISC OS
A nice 1080p GUI awaits you in this retro environment specifically built for the ARM , by the
team who designed the original ARM processor. Though it might seem unfamiliar to you,
RISC was actually commonplace in British schools in the early 90s.

24. Firefox OS
Not quite the sleek new phone UI you’ve been seeing, but a combination of Firefox and
PTXdist-built Linux. It’s very much a work in progress, and doesn’t actually support any input
devices yet – so purely used as a public information terminal.

25. Android
Broadcom was working on an official build of Android 4.0 which would be video
accelerated, but work on the project has seemingly died with no news in a year .
You can however download an older Android 2.3 build which, while technically
accomplished, is also too slow to be useable.

26. Application Software’s For Rassberry Pi

27. Programming

28. Office

29. Router

30. Home theater PC

31. Fun things to do with a Raspberry Pi

32. PiBot!

33. Mod My Pi
Mod My Pi do a great range of colourful cases, using state of the art injection
moulding techniques,and they’re not a bad price either.

34. Robotics
Robots are generally quite cool -- obviously aside from the ones that wish to
except for the ones that try to kill all of humanity. There are plenty of friendly
robots out there. Online magazine RPi MagPi has a feature (from page 9 onwards)
about how to make a robotic arm work with the RPi.

35. RPi Weather Station
This DragonTail mapping tutorial would
make an excellent science project for
school, the Raspberry Pi weather station.
Using a Maplin bought USB Wireless
Touch Weather Station, the RPi can log
all relevant data.

36. Raspberry Pi Cluster
Many Pi’s make light
work. Check out these
instructions from the
University of
Southampton to make a
RPi Supercomputer.

37. Similar device

38. Arduino is a single-board microcontroller, intended to make the application of
interactive objects or environments more accessible.The hardware consists of an
open-source hardware board designed around an 8-bit Atmel AVR
microcontroller, or a 32-bit Atmel ARM. Current models feature a USB interface, 6
analog input pins, as well as 14 digital I/O pins which allows the user to attach
various extension boards.
Arduino

40. Feature Arduino Uno Raspberry Pi
Model R3 Model B
Processor ATMega 328 ARM11
Clock Speed 16 MHz 700 MHz
Flash 32 KB External SD card
RAM 2 KB 512 MB (shared with GPU)
Minimum Power 42 mA (0.3W) 700 mA (3.5 W)
Input Voltage 7 to 12 volts 5 volts
Ethernet N/a 10/100
Audio Out N/a HDMI, analog
Dev IDE Arduino Tool Linux, Squeak, IDLE, Scratch
Video Out N/a HDMI, composite