karl.garnham1 opened this issue on Sep 20, 2014 · 47 posts
pumeco posted Sun, 05 October 2014 at 10:23 AM
Quote - What is a rasberry pie - assuming it's not food?
It's a complete single-board computer about the size of a card, costs around £25 brand new, and is open so you make of it whatever you want. It was originally designed for messing around with but people even use it as their main computer now. Tiny but powerful enough to run FullHD video no problem, so people often make media computers out of them. They're ideal for that because they're completely silent, no annoying fans etc.
It runs GNU/Linux or pretty much anything the enthusiasts want to run on it, and you can buy addons that connect to it, like touchscreens, motors and god knows what else. You could turn it into a robot if you wanted.
Pointless me telling you, there's just too much stuff out there, but search "Raspberry Pi" on YouTube cause there's literally millions of videos on there. I'm surprised you don't know about it, Brystie!
Click to see the latest model that just got released, a snip at 25 quid!