Hello, my name is Allison Pollock and I will be this week's blogger.
Many kids and adults are interested in learning about the amazing Raspberry Pi but we all know that we can't start learning about it without knowing what it is first. People of all ages use a computer on a daily basis either a desktop, laptop or a cellphone. Nowadays with the available technology this computing devices has been shrinking in size and increasing in power. That is the idea behind the raspberry pi, a small single board Linux based computer that we could learn to program and make awesome projects.
Even I was surprised that a small thing can control all the stuff we use in their team. That's why today we are going to learn about this single-board computer.
First of I wanted to show a picture of the raspberry pi before we get started.
Raspberry pi
Now that we know how it looks, let's take a dive into its history. The raspberry pi started in 2006 and was launched in 2012. The Raspberry pi was created under the company Raspberry Pi Foundation in the United Kingdom. The person who created the raspberry pi was Eben Upton.
Eben Upton
The raspberry pi is a low cost low-cost (about 35$), the card-sized computer that can either be plugged into a computer monitor or a television. The raspberry pi can do anything from video games to high-quality videos. It works pretty easy and it doesn't take that much to learn if you're fast to catch up with it. The raspberry pi is a good way for kids to start learning about programming. It is told that a raspberry lasts about 7- 10 years if you treat it correctly.
The raspberry pi is provided by a set of GPIO’s (general purpose input/output) pins, that allows the programmer to control electronic components for physical computing and explore the world that surround us.
Another thing is that the raspberry pi has tons of models that have been released throughout the years. The newest model is the Pi 400 which was released last year, 2021.
Raspberry pi can be used for multiple things such as coding. It can also be used to create home automation projects. In Our garage we are making our competing robot based in this little computer using Python to control it. Python is really cool computer language used by kids and adults. It has also been used in web aplications, game development, machine learning and more…
Python
I hope this information has been useful and we all hope you get started making stuff with a raspberry pi. Moreover before I end Let's congratulate the Raspberry Pi Foundation for reaching its 10th anniversary this week. There has been a lot of activities around the world celebrating this milestone! https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/10-years-raspberry-pi-national-museum-of-computing-exhibition/
