A Job for a Raspberry Pi?

About this interactive

The Raspberry Pi lesson shows a whole computer on one small board: a CPU, RAM, an SD card for storage, and ports for USB, network, HDMI and audio, plus interfaces for your own projects. The Raspberry Pi Foundation built it to be inexpensive and to help people learn about computers. Its benefits are size and price. It runs Raspberry Pi OS, a Linux built for it, and most Linux apps run on it, so it suits learning, small projects, digital signage, a test lab, or retro games. Its drawback is power: a small chip that will not do amazing computational feats. It also stays in one spot with whatever screen, keyboard and power you plug in, and it is not built for upgrades the way a desktop is. Sort each card. Five right in a row finishes the round.

What you'll learn

Decide whether a job suits a Raspberry Pi (small, inexpensive, low-powered, runs Linux, made for learning and projects) or needs more than a Pi can give

Aligned to

CompTIA Tech+

2.6 Compare and contrast common computing devices and their purposes.

Key terms

Raspberry Pi: A small, inexpensive single-board computer developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation for education, prototyping, and lightweight computing tasks.
Single-Board Computer: A complete computer built on a single circuit board, integrating a CPU, RAM, and I/O interfaces into a compact, low-cost form factor.

Topics

Raspberry Pi Single Board Computers Computing Devices Linux Interactive Streak Sort

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