Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi

As I have been doing for the Arduino, I have been doing some research on the Raspberry Pi.  This post will help get you going.

What is a Raspberry Pi?

First things first - Just what is an Raspberry Pi?  Check out the following links for a brief introduction:

• What is the Raspberry Pi?
• Raspberry Pi: An Introduction

Now let’s go a bit deeper to understand the Raspberry Pi hardware and capabilities:

• Raspberry Pi FAQs
• Raspberry Pi review

One of the key things the Raspberry Pi team has pushed is that this is a tool for education.

• Raspberry Pi for Education
• A taste of Raspberry Pi for Open Education Week at Oxford University

Raspberry Pi Setup

To help with the setup of the Raspberry Pi Linux environment, consider the following:

• Raspberry Pi Review & Initial How-To Setup Guide
• Secure, Re-Partition & Swap
• More tweaks to save precious RAM
• Basic Raspberry Pi Setup

Some tutorials and other things

• element14 Raspberry Pi Training Videos
• YouTube Raspberry Pi Tutorials
• RPi Tutorials
• RPi Guides
• Raspberry Pi Arch Linux ARM Tutorial
• DesignSpark Raspberry Pi Resources
• The Pi User
• The MagPi