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if you head out to a restaurant and order a $35 dessert you might expect the

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waiter to bring you more than just a plain slice of raspberry pie but getting

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this Raspberry Pi for the same price might just end up to be a fantastic deal

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a printed circuit board might not taste as good as a piece of sweet pastry but

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these little guys are a heck of a lot more versatile with people using

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raspberry pies as the basis of projects that run the gamut from home security

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and automation to Robotics and even beer

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making when I found out the Raspberry Pi 2 had been released I had to put it into

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action myself welcome to my review of the Raspberry Pi 2 model

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B Intel's new 750 series ssds utilize

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the NVMe standard providing speeds never seen before on a consumer series storage

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Drive click now to learn more probably the most striking feature

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of the RAs R Pi 2 is how much stuff they manage to cram onto a PCB the size of a

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credit card you get an S so also known as system on chip that features a 900

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MHz CPU and a 250 MHz GPU 1 GB of ddr2

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RAM on the back of the board and four USB 2.0 ports and a fullsize HDMI port

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that supports audio a 3.5mm stereo Jack that actually supports video out through

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an adapter if you're hooking up to an older TV 10100 Ethernet a Micro SD slot

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for storage and a micro USB port that that powers the whole thing you don't

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get a power cord but a USB wall wart that supports one amp of current should

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work fine for most users I used a standard 1 amp phone charger and had no

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problems although you might want to look into getting something like a charger

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ready for 2 amps if you're pumping a lot of juice through those USB ports there's

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also a couple bits you won't find on your standard desktop motherboard the pi

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includes connectors for an optional mini LCD display like you'd see on a digital

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camera like we're kind of filming on now and the optional $25 separately sold

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Raspberry Pi camera module which allows you to record 1080p video but probably

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the most important feature for those of you who really want to dive into a

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special project is the 40 pin general purpose input/output usually just called

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gpio these pins are fully programmable and allow you to control tons of

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different things with the pi such as thermometers for portable weather

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stations uh motors for miniature tanks and RC vehicles and maybe even a

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wireless door lock Etc but before I dove

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in and try to turn the pie into something Uber cool something on the

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spec list caught my attention the CPU on the Raspberry Pi is actually the same

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CPU an ARM cortex A7 that's in the

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Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini just at a lower clock speed with how we use smartphones

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for lots of basic tasks like watching YouTube videos web browsing and

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listening to music I got to wondering could the Raspberry Pi 2 especially if

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it has double the RAM and quad druple the CPU cores of the previous model be

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used as a basic PC could this little $35

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computer actually replace a desktop that's just being used for stuff like

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maybe a Facebook machine I was determined to find out so I went ahead

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and inserted the micro SD card that was included and pre-loaded with raspan a

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distribution of DB and Linux specifically adopted for the Raspberry

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Pi keep in mind though that if you order a pie it won't come with that micro SD

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card but you can download raspian and load it onto your own card for free

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after first displaying a Configuration utility with some basic options such as

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keyboard layout the P takes about 20 seconds to boot into the raspian desktop

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which looks a little like macOS from the late 1990s uh gray background the

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taskbar at the top it comes with a simple web browser console a PDF reader

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a simple text editor several programming environments and a strip down version of

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Minecraft in case you want to forget about your project for a few minutes and

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just play with your wood and things um

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also a word of warning this is a Linux environment and it's a bit of a weird

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one to boot it may be a bit of a struggle to work with even if you aren't

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a Linux wizard but I believe in you

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you're a skilled and intelligent person and with the help of online resources

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you can do this once you're good to go one of the main things people are going

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to try to do is use the Raspberry Pi for gaming outside of just Minecraft and it

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does quite well if you're looking for a little micro siiz ret Retro Gaming

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platform there's tons of projects online for people making super small even

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sometimes mobile Retro Gaming machines based on the Raspberry Pi platform and

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honestly I'm not surprised as it excels in this category first off this won't

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really be that good of a PC replacement for people who even just want to use it

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for Gmail and to laugh at some memes the pi has some issues with certain elements

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on many modern websites and has a steep learning curve for anyone who doesn't

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have quite a bit of experience in Linux so who is this actually for well

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basically anyone who has an idea for a cool project and the patience to see it

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through by learning how to configure things in Linux can make good use of the

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pi plenty of people have gotten their retro gaming consoles completely up and

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running in a matter of hours and others have even taken it further by building

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custom cases with joysticks and miniature screens to have a fully

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functional retro handheld or gaming station but if you don't want to game

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there are hundreds and hundreds of other uses for the Raspberry Pi that are

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limited basically only by your imagination media servers smart

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thermostats and even electric electronic bottle openers have all been powered by

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the Raspberry Pi so if you have 35 bucks burning a hole in your pocket for some

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reason and you're not in the mood to spend it on dessert it might be worth

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finding out just what you can come up with speaking of desserts our friends

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