if you head out to a restaurant and order a $35 dessert you might expect the
waiter to bring you more than just a plain slice of raspberry pie but getting
this Raspberry Pi for the same price might just end up to be a fantastic deal
a printed circuit board might not taste as good as a piece of sweet pastry but
these little guys are a heck of a lot more versatile with people using
raspberry pies as the basis of projects that run the gamut from home security
and automation to Robotics and even beer
making when I found out the Raspberry Pi 2 had been released I had to put it into
action myself welcome to my review of the Raspberry Pi 2 model
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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
credit card you get an S so also known as system on chip that features a 900
MHz CPU and a 250 MHz GPU 1 GB of ddr2
RAM on the back of the board and four USB 2.0 ports and a fullsize HDMI port
that supports audio a 3.5mm stereo Jack that actually supports video out through
an adapter if you're hooking up to an older TV 10100 Ethernet a Micro SD slot
for storage and a micro USB port that that powers the whole thing you don't
get a power cord but a USB wall wart that supports one amp of current should
work fine for most users I used a standard 1 amp phone charger and had no
problems although you might want to look into getting something like a charger
ready for 2 amps if you're pumping a lot of juice through those USB ports there's
also a couple bits you won't find on your standard desktop motherboard the pi
includes connectors for an optional mini LCD display like you'd see on a digital
camera like we're kind of filming on now and the optional $25 separately sold
Raspberry Pi camera module which allows you to record 1080p video but probably
the most important feature for those of you who really want to dive into a
special project is the 40 pin general purpose input/output usually just called
gpio these pins are fully programmable and allow you to control tons of
different things with the pi such as thermometers for portable weather
stations uh motors for miniature tanks and RC vehicles and maybe even a
wireless door lock Etc but before I dove
in and try to turn the pie into something Uber cool something on the
spec list caught my attention the CPU on the Raspberry Pi is actually the same
CPU an ARM cortex A7 that's in the
Samsung Galaxy S5 Mini just at a lower clock speed with how we use smartphones
for lots of basic tasks like watching YouTube videos web browsing and
listening to music I got to wondering could the Raspberry Pi 2 especially if
it has double the RAM and quad druple the CPU cores of the previous model be
used as a basic PC could this little $35
computer actually replace a desktop that's just being used for stuff like
maybe a Facebook machine I was determined to find out so I went ahead
and inserted the micro SD card that was included and pre-loaded with raspan a
distribution of DB and Linux specifically adopted for the Raspberry
Pi keep in mind though that if you order a pie it won't come with that micro SD
card but you can download raspian and load it onto your own card for free
after first displaying a Configuration utility with some basic options such as
keyboard layout the P takes about 20 seconds to boot into the raspian desktop
which looks a little like macOS from the late 1990s uh gray background the
taskbar at the top it comes with a simple web browser console a PDF reader
a simple text editor several programming environments and a strip down version of
Minecraft in case you want to forget about your project for a few minutes and
just play with your wood and things um
also a word of warning this is a Linux environment and it's a bit of a weird
one to boot it may be a bit of a struggle to work with even if you aren't
a Linux wizard but I believe in you
you're a skilled and intelligent person and with the help of online resources
you can do this once you're good to go one of the main things people are going
to try to do is use the Raspberry Pi for gaming outside of just Minecraft and it
does quite well if you're looking for a little micro siiz ret Retro Gaming
platform there's tons of projects online for people making super small even
sometimes mobile Retro Gaming machines based on the Raspberry Pi platform and
honestly I'm not surprised as it excels in this category first off this won't
really be that good of a PC replacement for people who even just want to use it
for Gmail and to laugh at some memes the pi has some issues with certain elements
on many modern websites and has a steep learning curve for anyone who doesn't
have quite a bit of experience in Linux so who is this actually for well
basically anyone who has an idea for a cool project and the patience to see it
through by learning how to configure things in Linux can make good use of the
pi plenty of people have gotten their retro gaming consoles completely up and
running in a matter of hours and others have even taken it further by building
custom cases with joysticks and miniature screens to have a fully
functional retro handheld or gaming station but if you don't want to game
there are hundreds and hundreds of other uses for the Raspberry Pi that are
limited basically only by your imagination media servers smart
thermostats and even electric electronic bottle openers have all been powered by
the Raspberry Pi so if you have 35 bucks burning a hole in your pocket for some
reason and you're not in the mood to spend it on dessert it might be worth
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