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The Raspberry Pi is a series of credit card-sized single-board computers developed in the United
Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote the teaching of basic computer science in Raspberry Pi 3 Model B (latest version)
schools and developing countries.[3][4][5]

Several generations of Raspberry Pis have been released. The first generation (Raspberry Pi 1
Model B) was released in February 2012. It was followed by a simpler and inexpensive model
Model A. In 2014 the foundation released a board with an improved design in Raspberry Pi 1
Model B+. The model laid the current "mainline" form-factor. Improved A+ and B+ models were
released a year later. A cut down "compute" model was released in April 2014, and a Raspberry
Pi Zero with smaller size and limited input/output (I/O), general-purpose input/output (GPIO),
abilities released in November 2015 for US$5. The Raspberry Pi 2 which added more RAM was
released in February 2015. Raspberry Pi 3 Model B released in February 2016 is bundled with
on-board WiFi and Bluetooth. As of 2016, Raspberry Pi 3 Model B is the newest mainline
Raspberry Pi. These boards are priced between US $20-35.

All models feature a Broadcom system on a chip (SoC), which includes an ARM compatible
central processing unit (CPU) and an on chip graphics processing unit (GPU, a VideoCore IV).
CPU speed ranges from 700 MHz to 1.2 GHz for the Pi 3 and on board memory range from
256 MB to 1 GB RAM. Secure Digital (SD) cards are used to store the operating system and
program memory in either the SDHC or MicroSDHC sizes. Most boards have between one and
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
four USB slots, HDMI and composite video output, and a 3.5 mm phone jack for audio. Lower
level output is provided by a number of GPIO pins which support common protocols like I²C. The Release date 29 February 2016
B-models have an 8P8C Ethernet port and the Pi 3 has on board Wi-Fi 802.11n and Bluetooth. Introductory US$35
price
The Foundation provides Raspbian, a Debian-based Linux distribution for download, as well as
third party Ubuntu, Windows 10 IOT Core, RISC OS, and specialised media center Operating Raspbian
distributions.[6] It promotes Python and Scratch as the main programming language, with support system Ubuntu MATE
for many other languages.[7] The default firmware is closed source, while an unofficial open Snappy Ubuntu Core
source is available. Windows 10 IoT Core[1]
RISC OS
In February 2016, the Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that they had sold eight million Debian
devices, making it the best-selling UK personal computer, ahead of the Amstrad PCW.[8][9] Sales Arch Linux ARM
reached ten million in September 2016.[10]

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System- Broadcom BCM2837

Contents on-chip used
CPU 1.2 GHz 64/32-bit quad-core ARM
1 Hardware Cortex-A53
1.1 Processor Memory 1 GB LPDDR2 RAM at 900 MHz[2]
1.1.1 Performance
1.1.2 Overclocking Storage MicroSDHC slot
1.2 RAM Graphics Broadcom VideoCore IV at higher
1.3 Networking clock frequencies (300 MHz &
1.4 Peripherals 400 MHz) than previous that run at
1.5 Video 250 MHz
1.6 Real-time clock
Power 800 mA (4.0 W)
1.7 Specifications
1.8 Connectors Website raspberrypi.org
1.8.1 Pi Zero (https://raspberrypi.org)
1.8.2 Model A/A+
1.8.3 Model B/B+
1.9 General purpose input-output (GPIO) connector
1.10 Accessories
2 Software
2.1 Operating systems
2.2 Driver APIs
2.3 Firmware
2.4 Third party application software
2.5 Software development tools
3 Reception and use
3.1 Community
3.2 Use in education
3.3 Use in home automation
3.4 Use in commercial products
4 Astro Pi
5 History
5.1 Pre-launch
5.2 Launch

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5.3 Post-launch
6 See also
7 References
8 Further reading
9 External links

Hardware
The Raspberry Pi hardware has evolved through several versions that feature variations in memory capacity and peripheral-device support.

This block diagram depicts Models A, B, A+, and B+. Model A, A+, and the Pi Zero lack the Ethernet and
USB hub components. The Ethernet adapter is internally connected to an additional USB port. In Model A,
A+, and the PI Zero, the USB port is connected directly to the system on a chip (SoC). On the Pi 1 Model B+
and later models the USB/Ethernet chip contains a five-point USB hub, of which four ports are available,
while the Pi 1 Model B only provides two. On the Pi Zero, the USB port is also connected directly to the SoC,
but it uses a micro USB (OTG) port.

Processor

The Broadcom BCM2835 SoC used in the first generation Raspberry Pi is somewhat equivalent to the chip
used in first generation smartphones (its CPU is an older ARMv6 architecture),[11] which includes a 700 MHz
ARM1176JZF-S processor, VideoCore IV graphics processing unit (GPU),[12] and RAM. It has a level 1 (L1)
cache of 16 KB and a level 2 (L2) cache of 128 KB. The level 2 cache is used primarily by the GPU. The SoC
is stacked underneath the glued to RAM chip, so only its edge is visible.

The Raspberry Pi 2 uses a Broadcom BCM2836 SoC with a 900 MHz 32-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
processor (as do many current smartphones), with 256 KB shared L2 cache.[13]

The Raspberry Pi 3 uses a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC with a 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM Cortex-A53
processor, with 512 KB shared L2 cache.[14] The Raspberry Pi 2 uses a 32-bit
900 MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
Performance processor.

While operating at 700 MHz by default, the first generation Raspberry Pi provided a real-world performance roughly equivalent to 0.041 GFLOPS.

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[15][16]
On the CPU level the performance is similar to a 300 MHz Pentium II of 1997–99. The GPU provides 1 Gpixel/s or 1.5 Gtexel/s of graphics
processing or 24 GFLOPS of general purpose computing performance. The graphical capability of the Raspberry Pi are roughly equivalent to the
performance of the Xbox of 2001.

The LINPACK single node compute benchmark results in a mean single precision performance of 0.065 GFLOPS and a mean double precision
performance of 0.041 GFLOPS for one Raspberry Pi Model-B board.[17] A cluster of 64 Raspberry Pi Model B computers, labeled "Iridis-pi",
achieved a LINPACK HPL suite result of 1.14 GFLOPS (n=10240) at 216 watts for c. US$4000.[17]

Raspberry Pi 2 includes a quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU running at 900 MHz and 1 GB RAM. It is described as 4–6 times more powerful than its
predecessor. The GPU is identical to the original.[13] In parallelized benchmarks, the Raspberry Pi 2 could be up to 14 times faster than a Raspberry
Pi 1 Model B+.[18]

The Raspberry Pi 3, with a quad-core Cortex-A53 processor, is described as 10 times the performance of a Raspberry Pi 1.[14] This was suggested to
be highly dependent upon task threading and instruction set use. Benchmarks showed the Raspberry Pi 3 to be approximately 80% faster than the
Raspberry Pi 2 in parallelized tasks.[19]

Overclocking

The first generation Raspberry Pi chip operated at 700 MHz by default, and did not become hot enough to need a heat sink or special cooling unless
the chip was overclocked. The Raspberry Pi 2 runs at 900 MHz by default; it also does not become hot enough to need a heatsink or special cooling,
although overclocking may heat up the SoC more than usual.

Most Raspberry Pi chips could be overclocked to 800 MHz, and some to 1000 MHz. There are reports the Raspberry Pi 2 can be similarly
overclocked, in extreme cases, even to 1500 MHz (discarding all safety features and over-voltage limitations). In the Raspbian Linux distro the
overclocking options on boot can be done by a software command running "sudo raspi-config" without voiding the warranty.[20] In those cases the Pi
automatically shuts the overclocking down if the chip reaches 85 °C (185 °F), but it is possible to override automatic over-voltage and overclocking
settings (voiding the warranty); an appropriately sized heatsink is needed to protect the chip from serious overheating.

Newer versions of the firmware contain the option to choose between five overclock ("turbo") presets that when used, attempt to maximize the
performance of the SoC without impairing the lifetime of the board. This is done by monitoring the core temperature of the chip, the CPU load, and
dynamically adjusting clock speeds and the core voltage. When the demand is low on the CPU or it is running too hot the performance is throttled,
but if the CPU has much to do and the chip's temperature is acceptable, performance is temporarily increased with clock speeds of up to 1 GHz
depending on the individual board and on which of the turbo settings is used.

The seven overclock presets are:

none; 700 MHz ARM, 250 MHz core, 400 MHz SDRAM, 0 overvolt,

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modest; 800 MHz ARM, 250 MHz core, 400 MHz SDRAM, 0 overvolt,
medium; 900 MHz ARM, 250 MHz core, 450 MHz SDRAM, 2 overvolt,
high; 950 MHz ARM, 250 MHz core, 450 MHz SDRAM, 6 overvolt,
turbo; 1000 MHz ARM, 500 MHz core, 600 MHz SDRAM, 6 overvolt,
Pi2; 1000 MHz ARM, 500 MHz core, 500 MHz SDRAM, 2 overvolt,
Pi3; 1100 MHz ARM, 550 MHz core, 500 MHz SDRAM, 6 overvolt. In system information CPU speed will appear as 1200 MHz. When in
idle speed lowers to 600 MHz.[21][22]

In the highest (turbo) preset the SDRAM clock was originally 500 MHz, but this was later changed to 600 MHz because 500 MHz sometimes causes
SD card corruption. Simultaneously in high mode the core clock speed was lowered from 450 to 250 MHz, and in medium mode from 333 to
250 MHz.

The Raspberry Pi Zero runs at 1 GHz.

RAM

On the older beta Model B boards, 128 MB was allocated by default to the GPU, leaving 128 MB for the CPU.[23] On the first 256 MB release
Model B (and Model A), three different splits were possible. The default split was 192 MB (RAM for CPU), which should be sufficient for
standalone 1080p video decoding, or for simple 3D, but probably not for both together. 224 MB was for Linux only, with only a 1080p framebuffer,
and was likely to fail for any video or 3D. 128 MB was for heavy 3D, possibly also with video decoding (e.g. XBMC).[24] Comparatively the Nokia
701 uses 128 MB for the Broadcom VideoCore IV.[25] For the new Model B with 512 MB RAM initially there were new standard memory split files
released( arm256_start.elf, arm384_start.elf, arm496_start.elf) for 256 MB, 384 MB and 496 MB CPU RAM (and 256 MB, 128 MB and 16 MB
video RAM). But a week or so later the RPF released a new version of start.elf that could read a new entry in config.txt (gpu_mem=xx) and could
dynamically assign an amount of RAM (from 16 to 256 MB in 8 MB steps) to the GPU, so the older method of memory splits became obsolete, and
a single start.elf worked the same for 256 and 512 MB Raspberry Pis.[26]

The Raspberry Pi 2 and the Raspberry Pi 3 have 1 GB of RAM.[27][28] The Raspberry Pi Zero has 512 MB of RAM.

Networking

The Model A, A+ and Pi Zero have no Ethernet circuitry and are commonly connected to a network using an external user-supplied USB Ethernet or
Wi-Fi adapter. On the Model B and B+ the Ethernet port is provided by a built-in USB Ethernet adapter using the SMSC LAN9514 chip.[29] The
Raspberry Pi 3 is equipped with 2.4 GHz WiFi 802.11n (150 Mbit/s) and Bluetooth 4.1 (24 Mbit/s) in addition to the 10/100 Ethernet port.

Peripherals

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The Raspberry Pi may be operated with any generic USB computer keyboard and mouse.[30]

Video

The video controller can emit standard modern TV resolutions, such as HD and Full HD, and higher or lower
monitor resolutions and older standard CRT TV resolutions. As shipped (i.e., without custom overclocking) it
can emit these: 640×350 EGA; 640×480 VGA; 800×600 SVGA; 1024×768 XGA; 1280×720 720p HDTV;
1280×768 WXGA variant; 1280×800 WXGA variant; 1280×1024 SXGA; 1366×768 WXGA variant;
1400×1050 SXGA+; 1600×1200 UXGA; 1680×1050 WXGA+; 1920×1080 1080p HDTV; 1920×1200
WUXGA.[31] The current Model B boards
incorporate four USB ports for
Higher resolutions, such as, up to 2048×1152, may work[32][33] or even 3840×2160 at 15 Hz (too low a connecting peripherals.
framerate for convincing video).[34] Note also that allowing the highest resolutions does not imply that the
GPU can decode video formats at those; in fact, the Pis are known to not work reliably for H.265 (at those
high resolution, at least), commonly used for very high resolutions (most formats, commonly used, up to full
HD, do work).

Although the Raspberry Pi 3 does not have H.265 decoding hardware, the CPU, more powerful than its
predecessors, is potentially able to decode H.265-encoded videos in software. The Open Source Media Center
(OSMC) project said in February 2016:

The new BCM2837 based on 64-bit ARMv8 architecture is backwards compatible with the
Raspberry Pi 2 as well as the original. While the new CPU is 64-bit, the Pi retains the original
VideoCore IV GPU which has a 32-bit design. It will be a few months before work is done to
establish 64-bit pointer interfacing from the kernel and userland on the ARM to the 32-bit GPU.
As such, for the time being, we will be offering a single Raspberry Pi image for Raspberry Pi 2 The early Raspberry Pi 1 Model A,
and the new Raspberry Pi 3. Only when 64-bit support is ready, and beneficial to OSMC users, with an HDMI port and a standard
will we offer a separate image. The new quad core CPU will bring smoother GUI performance. RCA composite video port for older
There have also been recent improvements to H265 decoding. While not hardware accelerated on displays.
the Raspberry Pi, the new CPU will enable more H265 content to be played back on the
Raspberry Pi than before.

— Raspberry Pi 3 announced with OSMC support[35]

The Pi 3's GPU has higher clock frequencies—300 MHz and 400 MHz for different parts—than previous versions' 250 MHz.[36][37]

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The Raspberry Pis can also generate 576i and 480i composite video signals, as used on old-style (CRT) TV screens through standard connectors
—either RCA or 3.5mm phone connector depending on models. The television signal standards supported are PAL-BGHID, PAL-M, PAL-N, NTSC
and NTSC-J.[38]

Real-time clock

The Raspberry Pi does not have a built-in real-time clock, and does not "know" the time of day. As a workaround, a program running on the
Raspberry Pi can get the time from a network time server or user input at boot time, thus knowing the time while powered on.

A real-time hardware clock with battery backup, such as the DS1307, which is fully binary coded, may be added (often via the I²C interface).

Specifications

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Raspberry Raspberry Compute

Variant Raspberry Pi 1 Raspberry Pi Zero
Pi 2 Pi 3 Module*
PCB
Model Model A Model A+ Model B Model B+ Model B Model B N/A PCB v1.2
v1.3
November April–June July February February November May
Release date February 2012 April 2014[41]
2014[39] 2012 2014[40] 2015[13] 2016[14] 2015[42] 2016
US$30 (in
Target price US$25 US$20[43] US$35[44] US$25[45] US$35 US$35 batches of US$5[42] US$5
100)[41]
ARMv7 ARMv8
Architecture ARMv6 (32-bit) ARMv6 (32-bit)
(32-bit) (64/32-bit)
Broadcom Broadcom
SoC Broadcom BCM2835[11] Broadcom BCM2835[41]
BCM2836 BCM2837
900 MHz
1.2 GHz 64-bit
32-bit 700 MHz 1 GHz
quad-core
CPU 700 MHz single-core ARM1176JZF-S[11] quad-core single-core ARM1176JZF-S
ARM
ARM ARM1176JZF-S single-core[42]
Cortex-A53
Cortex-A7
Broadcom VideoCore IV @ 250 MHz (BCM2837: 3D part of GPU @ 300 MHz, video part of GPU @ 400 MHz)[46][47]
GPU OpenGL ES 2.0 (BCM2835, BCM2836: 24 GFLOPS / BCM2837: 28.8 GFLOPS)
MPEG-2 and VC-1 (with license),[48] 1080p30 H.264/MPEG-4 AVC high-profile decoder and encoder[11] (BCM2837: 1080p60)
256 MB 512 MB (shared with GPU) as of 4 May
Memory
(shared with 2016. Older boards had 256 MB (shared 1 GB (shared with GPU) 512 MB (shared with GPU)
(SDRAM)
GPU) with GPU)[49]
2 (via the
USB 2.0 on-board 1 (direct from 1 Micro-USB (direct
1 (direct from BCM2835 chip) 4 (via the on-board 5-port USB hub)[29][40]
ports[30] 3-port USB BCM2835 chip) from BCM2835 chip)
hub)[50]
2× MIPI camera MIPI
15-pin MIPI camera interface (CSI) connector, used with the Raspberry Pi camera or
Video input interface None camera
Raspberry Pi NoIR camera[51] [41][52][53] interface
(CSI)

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(CSI)
(rev
1.3)[54]
HDMI, 2× MIPI
HDMI (rev HDMI (rev display interface
Mini-HDMI,
HDMI (rev 1.3) 1.3), 1.3), (DSI) for raw
Video HDMI (rev 1.3), composite video (3.5 mm LCD panels, 1080p60,[42]
composite composite composite
outputs TRRS jack) [41][53][55][56] composite video via
video (RCA jack) video (3.5 mm video (RCA
TRRS jack) jack) composite GPIO[58]
video[52][57]
Audio
As of revision 2 boards via I²S[59]
inputs
Mini-HDMI, stereo
Audio Analog, HDMI,
Analog via 3.5 mm phone jack; digital via HDMI and, as of revision 2 boards, I²S audio through PWM
outputs I²S
on GPIO
SD, MMC,
SDIO card slot SD, MMC, 4 GB eMMC
On-board MicroSDHC
(3.3 V with SDIO card MicroSDHC slot flash memory MicroSDHC
storage[30] slot[40]
card power slot chip;[41]
only)
10/100 Mbit/s
Ethernet,
On-board 10/100 Mbit/s Ethernet (8P8C) USB
None[60] 802.11n None
network[30] adapter on the USB hub[50]
wireless,
Bluetooth 4.1
8× GPIO[61] 8× GPIO plus 46× GPIO,
plus the 17× GPIO the following, some of which
following, plus the same which can can be used for
40× GPIO
Low-level which can also specific also be used 17× GPIO plus the same specific functions, specific
("unpopulated
peripherals be used as functions, as GPIO: and HAT ID bus functions
header")[42]
GPIO: UART, and HAT ID UART, I²C including I²C,
I²C bus, SPI bus bus, SPI bus SPI, UART,
with two chip

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selects, I²S
audio +3.3 V,
+5 V, ground.
bus with two An additional
chip selects, I²S 4× GPIO are
audio[62] available on PCM, PWM[64]
+3.3 V, +5 V, the P5 pad if
ground[46][63] the user is
willing to
make solder
connections

Power 300 mA 200 mA 700 mA 600 mA ~160 mA[42]

800 mA[67] (4.0 W)[68] 200 mA (1 W)
ratings (1.5 W)[65] (1 W)[66] (3.5 W) (3.0 W)[40] (0.8 W)
Power
5 V via MicroUSB or GPIO header
source
65 mm
85.60 mm
× 56.5 mm 65 mm
× 56.5 mm
× 10 mm 67.6 mm × 30 mm
(3.370 in
(2.56 in 85.60 mm × 56.5 mm (3.370 in × 2.224 in), not including × 30 mm × 5 mm
Size × 2.224 in), not
× 2.22 in protruding connectors (2.66 in (2.56 in
including
× 0.39 in), × 1.18 in) × 1.18 in
protruding
same as HAT × 0.20 in)
connectors
board
23 g 9g
Weight 31 g (1.1 oz) 45 g (1.6 oz) 7 g (0.25 oz)[69]
(0.81 oz) (0.32 oz)[70]
Console Micro-USB cable[60] or a serial cable with optional GPIO power connector[71]
PCB
Model Model A Model A+ Model B Model B+ Model B Model B N/A PCB v1.2
v1.3
Raspberry Raspberry Compute
Variant Raspberry Pi 1 Raspberry Pi Zero
Pi 2 Pi 3 Module*

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* all interfaces are via 200-pin DDR2 SO-DIMM connector.

Connectors

Pi Zero Model A/A+ Model B/B+

Location of connectors and main ICs Location of connectors and main ICs on Raspberry Location of connectors and main ICs on Ras
Pi 1 Model A Pi 1 Model B revision 1.2

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Location of connectors and main ICs on Raspberry Location of connectors and main ICs on Ras
Pi 1 Model A+ revision 1.1 Pi 1 Model B+ revision 1.2 and Raspberry P

Location of connectors and main ICs on Ras

3

General purpose input-output (GPIO) connector

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Raspberry Pi 1 Models A+ and B+, Pi 2 Model B, Pi 3 Model B and Pi Zero GPIO J8 have a 40-pin pinout.[72][73] Models A and B have only the
first 26 pins.[74][75][76]

GPIO# 2nd func. Pin# Pin# 2nd func. GPIO#

+3.3 V 1 2 +5 V
2 SDA1 (I²C) 3 4 +5 V
3 SCL1 (I²C) 5 6 GND
4 GCLK 7 8 TXD0 (UART) 14
GND 9 10 RXD0 (UART) 15
17 GEN0 11 12 GEN1 18
27 GEN2 13 14 GND
22 GEN3 15 16 GEN4 23
+3.3 V 17 18 GEN5 24
10 MOSI (SPI) 19 20 GND
9 MISO (SPI) 21 22 GEN6 25
11 SCLK (SPI) 23 24 CE0_N (SPI) 8
GND 25 26 CE1_N (SPI) 7
(Pi 1 Models A and B stop here)
EEPROM ID_SD 27 28 ID_SC EEPROM
5 N/A 29 30 GND
6 N/A 31 32 12
13 N/A 33 34 GND
19 N/A 35 36 N/A 16
26 N/A 37 38 Digital IN 20
GND 39 40 Digital OUT 21

Model B rev. 2 also has a pad (called P5 on the board and P6 on the schematics) of 8 pins offering access to an additional 4 GPIO connections.[77]

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Function 2nd func. Pin# Pin# 2nd func. Function

N/A +5 V 1 2 +3.3 V N/A
GPIO28 GPIO_GEN7 3 4 GPIO_GEN8 GPIO29
GPIO30 GPIO_GEN9 5 6 GPIO_GEN10 GPIO31
N/A GND 7 8 GND N/A

Models A and B provide GPIO access to the ACT status LED using GPIO 16. Models A+ and B+ provide GPIO access to the ACT status LED using
GPIO 47, and the power status LED using GPIO 35.

Accessories

Camera – On 14 May 2013, the foundation and the distributors RS Components & Premier Farnell/Element 14 launched the Raspberry Pi
camera board with a firmware update to accommodate it.[78] The camera board is shipped with a flexible flat cable that plugs into the CSI
connector located between the Ethernet and HDMI ports. In Raspbian, one enables the system to use the camera board by the installing or
upgrading to the latest version of the operating system (OS) and then running Raspi-config and selecting the camera option. The cost of the
camera module is €20 in Europe (9 September 2013).[79] It can produce 1080p, 720p and 640x480p video. The dimensions are
25 mm × 20 mm × 9 mm.[79] In May 2016, v2 of the camera came out, and is an 8 megapixel camera.
Gertboard – A Raspberry Pi Foundation sanctioned device, designed for educational purposes, that expands the Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins to
allow interface with and control of LEDs, switches, analog signals, sensors and other devices. It also includes an optional Arduino compatible
controller to interface with the Pi.[80]
Infrared Camera – In October 2013, the foundation announced that they would begin producing a camera module without an infrared filter,
called the Pi NoIR.[81]
HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) expansion boards – Together with the Model B+, inspired by the Arduino shield boards, the interface for
HAT boards was devised by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Each HAT board carries a small EEPROM (typically a CAT24C32WI-GT3)[82]
containing the relevant details of the board,[83] so that the Raspberry Pi's OS is informed of the HAT, and the technical details of it, relevant to
the OS using the HAT.[84] Mechanical details of a HAT board, that use the four mounting holes in their rectangular formation, are available
online.[85][86]

Software
Operating systems

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The Raspberry Pi primarily uses Raspbian, a Debian-based Linux operating system. Other third party
operating systems available via the official website include Ubuntu MATE, Snappy Ubuntu Core, Windows
10 IoT Core, RISC OS and specialised distributions for the Kodi media center and classroom
management.[87]

Many other operating systems can also run on the Raspberry Pi.

Other operating systems (not Linux-based)

RISC OS Pi (a special cut down version RISC OS Pico, for 16 MB cards and larger for all models of
Various operating systems can be
Pi 1 & 2, has also been made available)
installed on the Raspberry Pi through
FreeBSD[88]
SD cards; most use a MicroSD slot
NetBSD[89][90] located on the bottom of the board.
Plan 9 from Bell Labs[91][92] and Inferno[93] (in beta)
Windows 10 IoT Core – a no-cost edition of Windows 10 offered by Microsoft that runs natively on the
Raspberry Pi 2.[94]
xv6[95] – is a modern reimplementation of Sixth Edition Unix OS for teaching purposes; it is ported to Raspberry Pi from MIT xv6; this xv6
port can boot from NOOBS.
Haiku – is an opensource BeOS clone that has can be compiled for the Raspberry Pi and several other ARM boards.[96] Work began in 2011 on
Pi 1, but only the Pi 2 will be supported.
HelenOS – a portable microkernel-based multiserver operating system; has basic Raspberry Pi support since version 0.6.0[97]
Genode OS Framework (https://genode.org/) – supports the Raspberry Pi platform with the base-hw kernel since release 13.05[98]

Other operating systems (Linux-based)

Xbian[99] – using the Kodi (formerly XBMC) open source digital media center
openSUSE[100]
Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix[101]
Gentoo Linux[102]
Diet Pi, includes a diverse range of servers for media, VPN, Minecraft and many others[103]
CentOS for Raspberry Pi 2 and later
RedSleeve (a RHEL port) for Raspberry Pi 1
Slackware ARM – version 13.37 and later runs on the Raspberry Pi without modification.[104][105][106][107] The 128–496 MB of available
memory on the Raspberry Pi is at least twice the minimum requirement of 64 MB needed to run Slackware Linux on an ARM or i386
system.[108] (Whereas the majority of Linux systems boot into a graphical user interface, Slackware's default user environment is the textual

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shell / command line interface.[109]) The Fluxbox window manager running under the X Window System requires an additional 48 MB of
RAM.[110]
Moebius[111] – is a light ARM HF distribution based on Debian. It uses Raspbian repository, but it fits in a 128 MB SD card.[112] It has only
minimal services and its memory use is optimized to be small.
OpenWrt – is primarily used on embedded devices to route network traffic.
Kali Linux – is a Debian-derived distro designed for digital forensics and penetration testing.
Pardus ARM[113] – is a Debian-based operating system which is the light version of the Pardus (operating system).
Instant WebKiosk – is an operating system for digital signage purposes (web and media views).
Ark OS – is designed for website and email self-hosting.
ROKOS[114] – is a Raspbian-based operating system with integrated clients for the Bitcoin and OKCash cryptocurrencies.
MinePeon – is a dedicated operating system for mining cryptocurrency.
Kano OS[115]
Nard SDK[116] – is a software development kit (SDK) for industrial embedded systems.
Sailfish OS with Raspberry Pi 2 (due to use ARM Cortex-A7 CPU; Raspberry Pi 1 uses different ARMv6 architecture and Sailfish requires
ARMv7.)[117]
Tiny Core Linux – a minimal Linux operating system focused on providing a base system using BusyBox and FLTK. Designed to run
primarily in RAM.
IPFire – is a dedicated firewall/router distribution for the protection of a SOHO LAN; runs only on a Raspberry Pi 1; porting to the Raspberry
Pi 2 is not planned for now.[118]
Alpine Linux – is a Linux distribution based on musl and BusyBox, primarily designed for "power users who appreciate security, simplicity
and resource efficiency".
Void Linux – a rolling release Linux distribution which was designed and implemented from scratch, provides images based on musl or glibc.
Tingbot OS[119] – based on Raspbian, primarily designed for use with the Tingbot addon and running Tide apps.[120]
WTware for Raspberry Pi[121] – is a free operating system for creating Windows thin client from Pi 2 and Pi 3.
Media center operating systems:
OSMC
OpenELEC
LibreELEC (https://libreelec.tv/)
Xbian (http://www.xbian.org/)
Rasplex (http://www.rasplex.com/)
Audio operating systems :
Volumio (https://volumio.org/)
Pimusicbox (http://www.pimusicbox.com/)
Runeaudio (http://www.runeaudio.com/)

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moOdeaudio (http://www.moodeaudio.org/)
Retrogaming operating systems:
Retropie (https://retropie.org.uk/)
Recalbox (http://www.recalbox.com/)
Happi Game Center (http://happi-game-center.com/)
Lakka (http://www.lakka.tv/)
ChameleonPi (http://chameleon.enging.com/)
Piplay (http://piplay.org/)

Driver APIs

Raspberry Pi can use a VideoCore IV GPU via a binary blob, which is loaded into the GPU at boot time from
the SD-card, and additional software, that initially was closed source.[122] This part of the driver code was
later released.[123] However, much of the actual driver work is done using the closed source GPU code.
Application software use calls to closed source run-time libraries (OpenMax, OpenGL ES or OpenVG) which
in turn calls an open source driver inside the Linux kernel, which then calls the closed source VideoCore IV
GPU driver code. The API of the kernel driver is specific for these closed libraries. Video applications use
OpenMAX, 3D applications use OpenGL ES and 2D applications use OpenVG which both in turn use EGL.
OpenMAX and EGL use the open source kernel driver in turn.[124]

Firmware

The official firmware is a freely redistributable[125] binary blob, that is closed-source.[96] A minimal open Scheme of the implemented APIs:
source firmware is also available.[126] OpenMAX, OpenGL ES and
OpenVG
Third party application software

AstroPrint – AstroPrint's Wireless 3D printing software can be run on the Pi 2.[127]

Mathematica & the Wolfram Language – Since 21 November 2013, Raspbian includes a full installation of this proprietary software for
free.[128][129][130] As of 24 August 2015, the version is Mathematica 10.2.[131] Programs can be run either from a command line interface or
from a Notebook interface. There are Wolfram Language functions for accessing connected devices.[132] There is also a Wolfram Language
desktop development kit allowing development for Raspberry Pi in Mathematica from desktop machines.[133]
Minecraft – Released 11 February 2013, a version for the Raspberry Pi, in which you can modify the game world with code, the only official
version of the game in which you can do so.[134]

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UserGate Web Filter – On 20 September 2013, Florida-based security vendor Entensys announced porting UserGate Web Filter to Raspberry Pi
platform.[135]

Software development tools

AlgoID – for learning programming for kids and beginners.

BlueJ – for teaching Java to beginners.
Fawlty Language – a freely usable IDL (programming language) clone for Pi 2.
Greenfoot – Greenfoot teaches object orientation with Java. Create 'actors' which live in 'worlds' to build games, simulations, and other
graphical programs.
Julia – an interactive and cross-platform programming language/environment, that runs on the Pi 1 and later.[136] IDEs for Julia, such as Juno,
are available.
Lazarus – a Free Pascal RAD IDE.
LiveCode – educational RAD IDE descended from HyperCard using English-like language to write event-handlers for WYSIWYG widgets
runnable on desktop, mobile and Raspberry Pi platforms.
Ninja-IDE – a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE) for Python.
Object Pascal[137] – an object oriented variant (the one used in Delphi IDE) of Niklaus Wirth's original Pascal language.
Processing – an IDE built for the electronic arts, new media art, and visual design communities with the purpose of teaching the fundamentals
of computer programming in a visual context.
Scratch – a cross platform teaching IDE using visual blocks that stack like Lego™ originally developed by MIT's Life Long Kindergarten
group. The Pi version is very heavily optimised[138] for the limited compute resources available and is implemented in the Squeak Smalltalk
system.
Squeak Smalltalk – a full scale open Smalltalk.
V-Play Game Engine – a cross-platform development framework that supports mobile game and app development with the V-Play Game
Engine, V-Play apps and V-Play plugins.
Xojo – a cross-platform, professional RAD tool that can create desktop, web and console apps for Pi 2.
PowerBerry [139] – The porting of POWER-KI[140] programming language on Windows 10 IoT - The PowerBerry Manager PBM allows the
manage of the board and its distribution contains demo and test Apps (GPIO, WEB,PCA9685..).

Reception and use

Technology writer Glyn Moody described the project in May 2011 as a "potential BBC Micro 2.0", not by replacing PC compatible machines but by
supplementing them.[141] In March 2012 Stephen Pritchard echoed the BBC Micro successor sentiment in ITPRO.[142] Alex Hope, co-author of the
Next Gen report, is hopeful that the computer will engage children with the excitement of programming.[143] Co-author Ian Livingstone suggested

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that the BBC could be involved in building support for the device, possibly branding it as the BBC Nano.[144] Chris Williams, writing in The
Register sees the inclusion of programming languages such as Kids Ruby, Scratch and BASIC as a "good start" to equip kids with the skills needed in
the future – although it remains to be seen how effective their use will be.[145] The Centre for Computing History strongly supports the Raspberry Pi
project, feeling that it could "usher in a new era".[146] Before release, the board was showcased by ARM's CEO Warren East at an event in
Cambridge outlining Google's ideas to improve UK science and technology education.[147]

Harry Fairhead, however, suggests that more emphasis should be put on improving the educational software available on existing hardware, using
tools such as Google App Inventor to return programming to schools, rather than adding new hardware choices.[148] Simon Rockman, writing in a
ZDNet blog, was of the opinion that teens will have "better things to do", despite what happened in the 1980s.[149]

In October 2012, the Raspberry Pi won T3's Innovation of the Year award,[150] and futurist Mark Pesce cited a (borrowed) Raspberry Pi as the
inspiration for his ambient device project MooresCloud.[151] In October 2012, the British Computer Society reacted to the announcement of
enhanced specifications by stating, "it's definitely something we'll want to sink our teeth into."[152]

In February 2015, a switched-mode power supply chip, designated U16, of the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B version 1.1 (the initially released version)
was found to be vulnerable to flashes of light,[153] particularly the light from xenon camera flashes and green[154] and red laser pointers. However,
other bright lights, particularly ones that are on continuously, were found to have no effect. The symptom was the Raspberry Pi 2 spontaneously
rebooting or turning off when these lights were flashed at the chip. Initially, some users and commenters suspected that the electromagnetic pulse
(EMP) from the xenon flash tube was causing the problem by interfering with the computer's digital circuitry, but this was ruled out by tests where
the light was either blocked by a card or aimed at the other side of the Raspberry Pi 2, both of which did not cause a problem. The problem was
narrowed down to the U16 chip by covering first the system on a chip (main processor) and then U16 with Blu-Tack (an opaque poster mounting
compound). Light being the sole culprit, instead of EMP, was further confirmed by the laser pointer tests,[154] where it was also found that less
opaque covering was needed to shield against the laser pointers than to shield against the xenon flashes.[153] The U16 chip seems to be bare silicon
without a plastic cover (i.e. a chip-scale package or wafer-level package), which would, if present, block the light. Unofficial workarounds include
covering U16 with opaque material (such as electrical tape,[153][154] lacquer, poster mounting compound, or even balled-up bread[153]), putting the
Raspberry Pi 2 in a case,[154] and avoiding taking photos of the top side of the board with a xenon flash. This issue was not caught before the release
of the Raspberry Pi 2 because while commercial electronic devices are routinely subjected to tests of susceptibility to radio interference, it is not
standard or common practice to test their susceptibility to optical interference.[153]

Community

The Raspberry Pi community was described by Jamie Ayre of FLOSS software company AdaCore as one of the most exciting parts of the
project.[155] Community blogger Russell Davis said that the community strength allows the Foundation to concentrate on documentation and
teaching.[155] The community developed a fanzine around the platform called The MagPi[156] which in 2015, was handed over to the Raspberry Pi
Foundation by its volunteers to be continued in-house.[157] A series of community Raspberry Jam events have been held across the UK and around

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the world.[158]

Use in education

As of January 2012, enquiries about the board in the United Kingdom have been received from schools in both the state and private sectors, with
around five times as much interest from the latter. It is hoped that businesses will sponsor purchases for less advantaged schools.[159] The CEO of
Premier Farnell said that the government of a country in the Middle East has expressed interest in providing a board to every schoolgirl, in order to
enhance her employment prospects.[160][161]

In 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation hired a number of its community members including ex-teachers and software developers to launch a set of
free learning resources for its website.[162] The resources are freely licensed under Creative Commons, and contributions and collaborations are
encouraged on social coding platform GitHub.

The Foundation also started a teacher training course called Picademy with the aim of helping teachers prepare for teaching the new computing
curriculum using the Raspberry Pi in the classroom.[163] The continued professional development course is provided free for teachers and is run by
the Foundation's education team.

Use in home automation

There are a number of developers and applications that are leveraging the Raspberry Pi for home automation. These programmers are making an
effort to modify the Raspberry Pi into a cost affordable solution in energy monitoring and power consumption. Because of the relatively low cost of
the Raspberry Pi, this has become a popular and economical solution to the more expensive commercial alternatives.[164]

Use in commercial products

OTTO is a digital camera created by Next Thing Co. It incorporates a Raspberry Pi Compute Module. It was successfully crowd-funded in a May
2014 Kickstarter campaign.[165]

Slice is a digital media player which also uses a Compute Module as its heart. It was crowd-funded in an August 2014 Kickstarter campaign. The
software running on Slice is based on Kodi.[166]

Astro Pi
A project was launched in December 2014 at an event held by the UK Space Agency. The Astro Pi competition was officially opened in January and
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Astronaut Tim Peake plans to deploy the computers on board the International Space Station. He will then load up the winning code while in orbit,
collect the data generated and then send this to Earth where it will be distributed to the winning teams. The themes of Spacecraft Sensors, Satellite
Imaging, Space Measurements, Data Fusion and Space Radiation were devised to stimulate creative and scientific thinking.

The organisations involved in the Astro Pi competition include the UK Space Agency, UKspace, Raspberry Pi, ESERO-UK and ESA.

History
In 2006, early concepts of the Raspberry Pi were based on the Atmel ATmega644 microcontroller. Its
schematics and PCB layout are publicly available.[167] Foundation trustee Eben Upton assembled a group of
teachers, academics and computer enthusiasts to devise a computer to inspire children.[159] The computer is
inspired by Acorn's BBC Micro of 1981.[168][169] The Model A, Model B and Model B+ names are references
to the original models of the British educational BBC Micro computer, developed by Acorn Computers.[145]
The first ARM prototype version of the computer was mounted in a package the same size as a USB memory
stick.[170] It had a USB port on one end and an HDMI port on the other.

The Foundation's goal was to offer two versions, priced at US$25 and 35. They started accepting orders for
the higher priced Model B on 29 February 2012,[171] the lower cost Model A on 4 February 2013.[172] and the An early alpha-test board in operation
even lower cost (US$20) A+ on 10 November 2014.[43] On 26 November 2015, the cheapest Raspberry PI using different layout from later beta
yet, the Raspberry PI Zero, was launched at US$5 or £4.[173] and production boards

Pre-launch

July 2011: Trustee Eben Upton publicly approached the RISC OS Open community in July 2011 to enquire about assistance with a port.[174]
Adrian Lees at Broadcom has since worked on the port,[175][176] with his work being cited in a discussion regarding the graphics drivers.[177]
This port is now included in NOOBS.
August 2011 – 50 alpha boards are manufactured. These boards were functionally identical to the planned Model B,[178] but they were
physically larger to accommodate debug headers. Demonstrations of the board showed it running the LXDE desktop on Debian, Quake 3 at
1080p,[179] and Full HD MPEG-4 video over HDMI.[180]
October 2011 – A version of RISC OS 5 was demonstrated in public, and following a year of development the port was released for general
consumption in November 2012.[181][182][183][184]
December 2011 – Twenty-five Model B Beta boards were assembled and tested[185] from one hundred unpopulated PCBs.[186] The component
layout of the Beta boards was the same as on production boards. A single error was discovered in the board design where some pins on the
CPU were not held high; it was fixed for the first production run.[187] The Beta boards were demonstrated booting Linux, playing a 1080p

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movie trailer and the Rightware Samurai OpenGL ES benchmark.[188]

Early 2012 – During the first week of the year, the first 10 boards were put up for auction on eBay.[189][190] One was bought anonymously and
donated to the museum at The Centre for Computing History in Cambridge, England.[146][191] The ten boards (with a total retail price of £220)
together raised over £16,000,[192] with the last to be auctioned, serial number No. 01, raising £3,500.[193] In advance of the anticipated launch
at the end of February 2012, the Foundation's servers struggled to cope with the load placed by watchers repeatedly refreshing their
browsers.[194]

Launch

19 February 2012 – The first proof of concept SD card image that could be loaded onto an SD card to produce a preliminary operating system
is released. The image was based on Debian 6.0 (Squeeze), with the LXDE desktop and the Midori browser, plus various programming tools.
The image also runs on QEMU allowing the Raspberry Pi to be emulated on various other platforms.[195][196]
29 February 2012 – Initial sales commence 29 February 2012[197] at 06:00 UTC;. At the same time, it was announced that the model A,
originally to have had 128 MB of RAM, was to be upgraded to 256 MB before release.[171] The Foundation's website also announced: "Six
years after the project's inception, we're nearly at the end of our first run of development – although it's just the beginning of the Raspberry Pi
story."[198] The web-shops of the two licensed manufacturers selling Raspberry Pi's within the United Kingdom, Premier Farnell and RS
Components, had their websites stalled by heavy web traffic immediately after the launch (RS Components briefly going down completely).
[199][200] Unconfirmed reports suggested that there were over two million expressions of interest or pre-orders.[201] The official Raspberry Pi
Twitter account reported that Premier Farnell sold out within a few minutes of the initial launch, while RS Components took over 100,000 pre
orders on day one.[171] Manufacturers were reported in March 2012 to be taking a "healthy number" of pre-orders.[155]
March 2012 – Shipping delays for the first batch were announced in March 2012, as the result of installation of an incorrect Ethernet
port,[202][203] but the Foundation expected that manufacturing quantities of future batches could be increased with little difficulty if
required.[204] "We have ensured we can get them [the Ethernet connectors with magnetics] in large numbers and Premier Farnell and RS
Components [the two distributors] have been fantastic at helping to source components," Upton said. The first batch of 10,000 boards was
manufactured in Taiwan and China.[205][206]
8 March 2012 – Release Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix, the recommended Linux distribution,[207] developed at Seneca College in Canada.[208]
March 2012 – The Debian port is initiated by Mike Thompson, former CTO of Atomz. The effort was largely carried out by Thompson and
Peter Green, a volunteer Debian developer, with some support from the Foundation, who tested the resulting binaries that the two produced
during the early stages (neither Thompson nor Green had physical access to the hardware, as boards were not widely accessible at the time due
to demand).[209] While the preliminary proof of concept image distributed by the Foundation before launch was also Debian-based, it differed
from Thompson and Green's Raspbian effort in a couple of ways. The POC image was based on then-stable Debian Squeeze, while Raspbian
aimed to track then-upcoming Debian Wheezy packages.[196] Aside from the updated packages that would come with the new release, Wheezy
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was limited to the armel architecture, which was, at the time of Squeeze's release, the latest attempt by the Debian project to have Debian run
on the newest ARM embedded-application binary interface (EABI).[211] The armhf architecture in Wheezy intended to make Debian run on the
ARM VFP hardware floating-point unit, while armel was limited to emulating floating point operations in software.[212][213] Since the
Raspberry Pi included a VFP, being able to make use of the hardware unit would result in performance gains and reduced power use for
floating point operations.[209] The armhf effort in mainline Debian, however, was orthogonal to the work surrounding the Pi and only intended
to allow Debian to run on ARMv7 at a minimum, which would mean the Pi, an ARMv6 device, would not benefit.[210] As a result, Thompson
and Green set out to build the 19,000 Debian packages for the device using a custom build cluster.[209]

Post-launch

16 April 2012 – Reports appear from the first buyers who had received their Raspberry Pi.[214][215]
20 April 2012 – The schematics for the Model A and Model B are released.[216]
18 May 2012 – The Foundation reported on its blog about a prototype camera module they had tested.[217] The prototype used a 14-megapixel
module.
22 May 2012 – Over 20,000 units had been shipped.[218]
16 July 2012 – It was announced that 4,000 units were being manufactured per day, allowing Raspberry Pis to be bought in bulk.[219][220]
24 August 2012 – Hardware accelerated video (H.264) encoding becomes available after it became known that the existing license also
covered encoding. Formerly it was thought that encoding would be added with the release of the announced camera module.[221][222] However,
no stable software exists for hardware H.264 encoding.[223] At the same time the Foundation released two additional codecs that can be bought
separately, MPEG-2 and Microsoft's VC-1. Also it was announced that the Pi will implement CEC, enabling it to be controlled with the
television's remote control.[48]
July 2012 – Release of Raspbian.[224]
5 September 2012 – The Foundation announced a second revision of the Raspberry Pi Model B.[225] A revision 2.0 board is announced, with a
number of minor corrections and improvements.[226]
6 September 2012 – Announcement that in future the bulk of Raspberry Pi units would be manufactured in the UK, at Sony's manufacturing
facility in Pencoed, Wales. The Foundation estimated that the plant would produce 30,000 units per month, and would create about 30 new
jobs.[227][228]
15 October 2012 – It is announced that new Raspberry Pi Model Bs are to be fitted with 512 MB instead of 256 MB RAM.[229]
24 October 2012 – The Foundation announces that "all of the VideoCore driver code which runs on the ARM" had been released as free
software under a BSD-style license, making it "the first ARM-based multimedia SoC with fully-functional, vendor-provided (as opposed to
partial, reverse engineered) fully open-source drivers", although this claim has not been universally accepted.[123] On 28 February 2014, they
also announced the release of full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the graphics stack under
a 3-clause BSD license[230][231]

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October 2012 – It was reported that some customers of one of the two main distributors had been waiting more than six months for their orders.
This was reported to be due to difficulties in sourcing the CPU and conservative sales forecasting by this distributor.[232]
17 December 2012 – The Foundation, in collaboration with IndieCity and Velocix, opens the Pi Store, as a "one-stop shop for all your
Raspberry Pi (software) needs". Using an application included in Raspbian, users can browse through several categories and download what
they want. Software can also be uploaded for moderation and release.[233]
3 June 2013 – 'New Out Of Box Software or NOOBS is introduced. This makes the Raspberry Pi easier to use by simplifying the installation of
an operating system. Instead of using specific software to prepare an SD card, a file is unzipped and the contents copied over to a FAT
formatted (4 GB or bigger) SD card. That card can then be booted on the Raspberry Pi and a choice of six operating systems is presented for
installation on the card. The system also contains a recovery partition that allows for the quick restoration of the installed OS, tools to modify
the config.txt and an online help button and web browser which directs to the Raspberry Pi Forums.[234]
October 2013 – The Foundation announces that the one millionth Pi had been manufactured in the United Kingdom.[235]
November 2013: they announce that the two millionth Pi shipped between 24 and 31 October.[236]
28 February 2014 – On the day of the second anniversary of the Raspberry Pi, Broadcom, together with the Raspberry PI foundation,
announced the release of full documentation for the VideoCore IV graphics core, and a complete source release of the graphics stack under a
3-clause BSD license.[230][231]

7 April 2014 – The official Raspberry Pi blog announced the Raspberry Pi Compute Module, a device
in a 200-pin DDR2 SO-DIMM-configured memory module (though not in any way compatible with
such RAM), intended for consumer electronics designers to use as the core of their own products.[41]
June 2014 – The official Raspberry Pi blog mentioned that the three millionth Pi shipped in early May
2014.[237]
14 July 2014 – The official Raspberry Pi blog announced the Raspberry Pi Model B+, "the final
evolution of the original Raspberry Pi. For the same price as the original Raspberry Pi model B, but Raspberry Pi Compute Module
incorporating numerous small improvements people have been asking for".[40]
10 November 2014 – The official Raspberry Pi blog announced the Raspberry Pi Model A+.[43] It is the
smallest and cheapest (US$20) Raspberry Pi so far and has the same processor and RAM as the model
A. Like the A, it has no Ethernet port, and only one USB port, but does have the other innovations of
the B+, like lower power, micro-SD-card slot, and 40-pin HAT compatible GPIO.
2 February 2015 – The official Raspberry Pi blog announced the Raspberry Pi 2. Looking like a Model
B+, it has a 900 MHz quad-core ARMv7 Cortex-A7 CPU, twice the memory (for a total of 1 GB) and
complete compatibility with the original generation of Raspberry Pis.[238]
14 May 2015 – The price of Model B+ was decreased from US$35 to 25, purportedly as a "side effect
of the production optimizations" from the Pi 2 development.[239] Industry observers have skeptically
Raspberry Pi Model B
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competitor.[240]
26 November 2015 – The Raspberry Pi Foundation launched the Raspberry Pi Zero, the smallest and cheapest member of the Raspberry Pi
family yet, at 65 mm × 30 mm, and US$5. The Zero is similar to the model A+ without camera and LCD connectors, while smaller and uses
less power. It was given away with the Raspberry PI magazine Magpi #40 that was distributed in the UK and US that day – the MagPi was sold
out at almost every retailer internationally due to the freebie.[42]
29 February 2016 – Raspberry Pi 3 with a BCM2837 1.2 GHz 64-bit quad processor based on the ARMv8 Cortex A53, with built-in Wi-Fi
BCM43438 802.11n 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth 4.1 Low Energy (BLE). Starting with a 32-bit Raspbian version, with a 64-bit version later to
come if "there is value in moving to 64-bit mode". In the same announcement it was said that a new BCM2837 based Compute Module was
expected to be introduced a few months later.[241]
25 April 2016 – Raspberry Pi Camera v2.1 announced with 8 Mpixels, in normal and NoIR (can receive IR) versions. The camera uses the
Sony IMX219 chip with a resolution of 3280 × 2464. To make use of the new resolution the software has to be updated.[242]
10 October 2016 – NEC Display Solutions announces that select models of commercial displays to be released in early 2017 will incorporate a
Raspberry Pi 3 Compute Module.[243]
14 October 2016 – Raspberry Pi Foundation announces their cooperation with NEC Display Solutions. They expect that the Raspberry Pi 3
Compute Module will be available to the general public by the end of 2016.[244]

See also
RACHEL
Comparison of single-board computers

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Further reading
Raspberry Pi For Dummies; Sean McManus and Mike Cook; 432 pages; 2013; ISBN 978-1118554210.
Getting Started with Raspberry Pi; Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace; 176 pages; 2013; ISBN 978-1449344214.
Raspberry Pi User Guide; Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree; 312 pages; 2014; ISBN 978-1118921661.
Hello Raspberry Pi!; Ryan Heitz; 320 pages; 2016; ISBN 978-1617292453.
Getting Started with Wolfram Language and Mathematica for Raspberry Pi; Agus Kurniawan; 73 pages; 2016; ISBN B01BON8NCI.

External links
Raspberry Pi Foundation official website and forums (https://raspberrypi.org)
Wikimedia Commons has
Raspberry Pi Wiki, supported by the RPF (http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard) media related to Raspberry
The MagPi newsletter (http://www.themagpi.com) Pi.
Raspberry Pi gpio pinout (http://www.panu.it/raspberry/)
Raspberry Pi component map (http://raspmap.everpi.net)

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