What is Raspberry Pi?

What is Raspberry Pi?

Raspberry Pi is a series of small single board computers developed by Raspberry Pi Foundation along with Broadcom. Raspberry Pi Foundation is a British charity and company having an aim to promote the study of basic computer science in schools. Broadcom Inc. is an American company. Raspberry Pi is quite popular in hobby electronics and Amateur Radio. Raspberry Pi supports HDMI and USB standards. First model was released in 2012.

Latest in the series is Raspberry Pi 400 released in 2020. It has 4GB of RAM and is combined with a keyboard in a single case. It has an upgraded switch mode power supply (SMPS). The processor can be clocked at 1.8 GHz which is 20% faster than the previous version.

Raspberry Pi OS is a Unix-like operating system for the Raspberry Pi series. It has been the primary operating system for Raspberry Pi series since 2013. It is free and Open Source, distributed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Earlier generations of Raspberry Pi needed external ethernet or WiFi adapters for networking. Later a built-in USB ethernet adaptor was included. Still later, WiFi and Bluetooth support were added. Raspberry Pi 4 has full gigabit Ethernet support.

Source: Wikipedia