Raspberry Pi - introduction

A great deal has already been written about the Raspberry Pi on the internet. I decided to add something of my own as well. My adventure with this little computer began when one of the companies distributing it announced a promotion and for a week the B Rev.2 version could be bought at a reduced price. I first installed XBMC on the SD card as a test, but in the end I settled on Raspbian, and all the descriptions here refer to that system. In my experiments I used the GPIO, I2C and UART interfaces.

Fig. The Raspberry Pi V2 computer.

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