The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s hit single-board PC of the same name is now getting replaced by a successor. The Raspberry Pi 2 comes with much-improved internals but the same $35 price tag.
The project was initially started to get young adults into coding. Since its launch three years ago, it has found its way in a number of products including cameras, smartphones and arcade machines, all developed by enthusiasts. Hours after the announcement, Microsoft also announced its support for the product with a special version of Windows 10.
Unlike the previous model which came with a 700Mhz single-core chip, the new Raspberry Pi 2 comes with a 900Mhz quad-core ARMv7 processor with twice as much RAM, at 1 GB. For connectivity you’ll get up to 4 USB 2.0 ports, Ethernet, headphone jack and HDMI. All in a package which is around as big as a credit card.
“You could use a Raspberry Pi 1 as a PC but you had to say ‘This is a great PC in so far as it cost me 35 bucks’. We’ve removed the caveat that you had to be a bit forgiving with it. Now it’s just good.”
In typical fashion it is also very hackable. Now with this significant boost, it will be worth seeing how hackers, who form the larger part of the buyers here, will respond. The older versions should get even cheaper now but at $35 you don’t really need a fortune to get started with the real deal either.
Whre to get in pakistan?
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Raspberry-PI-Pakistan-Store/557246724372904
why it does not have any casing/plastic cover??
It is a Embedded System card for Engineers. They use it in their devices that’s why there is not any plastic cover.
You can understand it from your PC cards example that do not contain plastic cover themselves
so it means we can not use it as normal device? because we are not engineers
You can. If you like tweaking things and experimenting.
And if you are aware of Linux, then it is a PC running Linux for you.
Before using it first you have to design its firmware on “Python” programming language, and then it will do what you would have programmed. If you can do it then it does not matter you are engineer or not
I already own a Raspaberry pi 2 running Linux.. its very great device.. which helped me alot to get into systems and networks.. Im glad to see Pakistani is atleast learning something..