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What is Raspberry Pi?

Raspberry PI is the name of a series of single-board computers made by the Raspberry PI Foundation, a UK charity that aims to educate people in computing and create easier access to computing education.

The Raspberry PI launched in 2012, and there have been several iterations and variations released since then. The original Pi had a single-core 700MHz CPU and just 256MB RAM, and the latest model has a quad-core 1.4GHz CPU with 1GB RAM.

All over the world, people use Raspberry PI to learn programming skills, build hardware projects, do home automation, and even use them in industrial applications.

The Raspberry PI is a very cheap computer that runs Linux, but it also provides a set of GPIO (general purpose input/output) pins that allow you to control electronic components for physical computing and explore the Internet of Things (IoT).

Raspberry PI models

Pi 1 Model B
Pi 1 Model A  
Pi 1 Model B+
Pi 1 Model A+
Pi 2 Model B
Pi Zero
Pi 3 Model B
Pi Zero W
Pi 3 Model B+
Pi 3 Model A+

What can you do with a Raspberry PI?

Some people buy a Raspberry PI to learn to code, and people who can already code use the Pi to learn to code electronics for physical projects. The Raspberry PI can open opportunities for you to create your home automation projects, which is popular among people in the open-source community because it puts you in control, rather than using a proprietary closed system.

Features of Raspberry PI model B

512 MB SDRAM memory
Broadcom BCM2835 SoC full high definition multimedia processor
Dual-Core Video Core IV Multimedia coprocessor
Single 2.0 USB connector
HDMI (rev 1.3 and 1.4) Composite RCA (PAL & NTSC) Video Out
3.5 MM Jack, HDMI Audio Out
MMC, SD, SDIO Card slot onboard storage
Linux Operating system
Dimensions are 8.6cm*5.4cm*1.7cm
Onboard 10/100 Ethernet RJ45 jack

Raspberry PI Act as a Lifesaver in COVID 19 Pandemic

Ventilators are in high demand as hospitals are looking to provide treatment to coronavirus patients in critical condition. Companies such as Tesla, Ford, and Foxconn are using their manufacturing facilities to produce these machines.

To make these newly designed ventilators, a lot of manufacturers are using the Raspberry PI Zero, a $5 computer developed for small scale projects. While a single-core 1GHz processor with 512MB RAM might not sound too powerful, it’s enough to power a ventilator.

This machine uses valves anyone can find in a neighborhood plumbing supply store. The machine itself is due for a fast-tracked round of tests in two Bogota institutions — Los Andes University and the University Hospital of the Pontifical Xavierian University.

"The fight against Covid-19 (sic) is like a race," From cramping up supercomputing effort to fight COVID-19 to building ventilator, the tech industry has been stepping up to help fight pandemic in multiple ways.

Computing Power

The Raspberry PI plays a key role in the ventilator. The British invention is a small, low-cost computer board, which was originally created to help teach computer coding. But over the past eight years it has been embraced by enthusiasts and others to form the brains of a wide range of electronics projects.
Having a computer to control the ventilator is critical. It sets the air pressure, opens and closes valves, and can regulate whether a patient needs full or partial breathing assistance.
Technology can solve a lot of the problems we have right now specifically in this pandemic. Raspberry PI is a small, non-expensive computer board that was initially made to help teach computer coding. But in the last eight years, it was increasingly embraced by programming enthusiasts to become the brains of a broad scope of electronics projects.
Computer control of the ventilator is crucial. It sets the correct air pressure, closes and opens valves, and regulates a patient's need for partial or full breathing assistance. We can make changes to the processes without doing much to the hardware to:
When the Raspberry PI project was first announced, I thought it looked like an interesting toy for programmatically inclined, and not much more. As the device family has improved, it's become more capable now. However, the work Raspberry PI foundation has done to promote and build an ecosystem for their homebrew product could save your life, or the life of someone you know.