uk.businessinsider Celebrate Pi Day With These 9 High-Tech Raspberry Pi Hacks | Wired Design Just hitting its one-year anniversary on the market, and already eclipsing a million units sold, the tiny Raspberry Pi computer board continues to grow as the maker's platform of choice. It has been used to make a pyrotechnic stage show that can fit in a backyard, mini videogame cabinets, and even prototype medical devices, but those applications only the first sprouts of what the platform can grow in to. The $35 DIY platform is as small as a credit card, but has a 700 MHz processor, 512 MB of ram, and a rich array of input and output ports that allow the diminutive device to be augmented with sensors and displays. Unlike competitive platforms, it runs Linux and allows makers to leverage expertise in Python, PHP, Javascript, and other common languages reducing the friction required to make amazing projects.
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