Raspberry Pie 3: What can be done with this equipment $ 35

Raspberry Pi manufacturers are celebrating their fourth anniversary with a new version of the $ 35 packing equipment several key upgrades, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

The Raspberry Pi 3 is about the size of a credit card, but comes with endless possibilities for each of programmers looking to create new projects fun for students learn about programming in the classroom. With the additions of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, the Raspberry Pi 3 is capable of being used as a backbone to connect home automation devices and sensors.

The updated equipment also includes a 64-bit processor, so it is 50 percent faster than the Raspberry Pi 2.

Popular projects include Raspberry Pi computer connection to home devices to create an "Internet of things" ecosystem, building a low-cost robot and creating games.

"The two main things that people do with their pi are PC use it as a substitute or use it as a built-in computer," Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi founder, told the BBC. "The Pi 3 doubles down on both these things rather than go looking for new things to do."

The Raspberry Pi 3 goes on sale today element14, RS Components and several other resellers, according to the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

Raspberry Pi team had another release of Thanksgiving surprise with its latest Raspberry Pi Zero, a computer for $ 5, which is about the size of a stick of gum.

"The original Raspberry Pi Model B and his successors put a programmable computer available to anyone with $ 20-35 to pass," Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi founder, wrote in a blog last year to celebrate the release. "Since 2012, millions of people have used a Raspberry Pi to get their first experience of programming, but still meet the people for whom the cost is still a barrier to entry. At the beginning of this year, we started working on a raspberry Pi even cheaper to help these people take the plunge ".

Despite its cheaper price, the Raspberry Pi Zero works with Raspbian operating system and various applications, including Minecraft, Sonic Pi, which allow users to play with the code to produce new sounds, and Scratch, the programming language that It allows users to create their own stories, games and animations.

The computer comes with a 1GHz chip, a micro USB slot and micro SC for data and power ports, allowing a user to connect to the Internet using a Wi-Fi dongle.

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