A glance on Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is an inexpensive, minicomputer, which operates on open-source operating system. The computer is the size of a credit-card and is designed in such way that the software can easily be developed. The computer is a masterpiece developed by computer expert David Braben under the management of Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Refreshing the bedroom coder attitude
For the past two decades computer has been very popular for games especially among the growing children. Later things changed a bit, when users began to use passwords to protect his or her games, display demos, bring in innovations and spend a lot of time in understanding the system that provides digital entertainment. Computer expert wants to bring in change in the scenario where he wants people to participate in the creation or innovations rather than being just users.

The Raspberry Pi – An entertainer in school
The Raspberry Pi computers are compact and very easy to handle. It does not have any complications as the MS windows program. It is easy to understand and an n added feature is that when something is not right, you can simply restart the system and proceed with your activities. It has become a part of school activities especially for science programs. Many schools have found it to be very useful. Some of the major advantages of the system is that it works on low-power, its affordable and is definitely a better option than traditional desktop.

An insight into the Raspberry Pi Board
To maintain low-costs, the Raspberry Foundation decided to ship the computer as a bare board. The basic version has 700 MHz ARM processor and 256 RAM as components on the Board. Beside it offers a USB Port, an audio jack, video jack and HDMI port. If you chose an expensive version, you can have an additional USB Port and enhanced RAM.

Can the Pi fulfill its goals?
Launch of the inexpensive minicomputer has diverse opinion among the users. Apart from a positive result from the schools using it, many are focused to just play games. Critics have the option that it cannot achieve the goals as the there are other solutions like Scratch and Alice that help in enhancing the visual effects on the prevailing personal computers.

Overall, the mini device serves multipurpose like playing games, learn to develop programs, enjoy robot games or even set it up as a media computer. For people who are passionate about electronics, Raspberry Pi is the cheapest way to enjoy it.