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Published inAug 2017
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Madhur Bhargava
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Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.
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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: Raspberry Pi, Model 3b, layout details; source: www.smarthomesage.com

For less than 40 euros (which is the approximate cost of this board), for starters, you can simply connect a USB 2.0 mouse and keyboard to the USB ports, hook up a monitor via the HDMI port, and you already have the hardware setup of a personal computer:

Figure 30: Raspberry Pi, Model 3b, Specifications...

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Madhur Bhargava

Madhur Bhargava is specialized in Wireless and Mobile Computing from CDAC ACTS Pune, India. He started his career at Electronic Arts as a software engineer working on mobile games. He later addressed problems in personalized healthcare, leveraging the power of mobile and voice computing. He is proficient in various mobile/embedded technologies and strives to be a software generalist. He believes that good software is a result of talented individuals working together as a communicative team in an Agile manner. He likes to spend time with his family, read, and watch movies.
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