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lectronics as a hobby and knowledge of the boundaries between hardware and software have long been something too expensive and too obfuscated for most people = to access. It hasn’t been until the last decade or so that many companies launched complete development boards which allow people to have varying degrees of control over both software and hardware -- for purposes of education, automation, and project construction. As of now, Raspberry Pi is the culmination of these efforts, giving people much more power than a similarly-priced Arduino would. While more for the purpose of interfacing with general purpose peripherals over HDMI, ethernet, and USB, the Raspberry Pi still includes multiple general purpose input/output (GPIO) ports-- allowing for a similar level of control. The Raspberry Pi can become a fully featured home theater PC or server— the possibilities are limitless. While people are able to use the Pi for a slew of pre-written applications using pre-baked distributions of Linux, perhaps the most useful thing to do with a Raspberry Pi is to use it as a platform upon which to learn how an operating system function.s. Cambridge University’s course Baking Pi is an introductory course on Unix designed to do just that.
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