Thursday, November 22, 2012

Raspberry Pi


A colleague recently told me about Raspberry Pi originally developed for educational purposes. 

It is a credit card low cost computer running on a stripped down version of Debian. Considering its price and it is running on open source operating system, it definitely caught my attention.



Herewith one of the reviews on this product. 

Applications
There are several articles written about cool ideas to use this hardware (such as here, and here), including remote security camera, media streamer, internet radio etc.

Based on what I have read so far, this board should be able to deliver any applications or functions that is not overly CPU demanding. 

On a personal note, I am particularly fond of its low-noise aspect, such that it can sit pretty well anywhere in my home without generating too much disturbances. 

Cost
I did a quick calculation on the cost of building one of these including casing and flash drive, which works out to be less than $75.00 (but I have not considered the delivery cost of Pi itself): 

Item
Cost ($)
Remarks
Pi
42
Case
10
Ebay AU
32GB SD card
21.90
Ebay AU
Total
73.90


Getting started
To have it up and running, there are several getting started guides available online, and here is a quite comprehensive one with pictures illustrating the steps. 

In summary, it is as simple as preparing the operating system on the SD card (from either a windows or linux machine), plug it in, power it up and off you go. 

Others Tech References
- Design Spark provides a schematics capture and PCB layout tool for free. 
- I found a guide detailing building GNU/Linux on ARM machine from the ground up. 
Gooseberry - an alternative to Raspberry Pi.


It's definitely on my agenda. 

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