Raspberry Pi

• Computer with CPU ARM which has a size of a credit card
• Invented in 2006, by Eben Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft in Cambridge (north of London)
• Price approximately 30€ (careful shipping).
• As of October 2014, about 3.8 million boards had been sold.

What's for ?

• The goal is to encourage to learn Computer Science
• Powerful enough to be used in many applications

What do you need

• Micro USB power supply : ~15€
• Ethernet cable : ~8€

Optional accessories

• A case : ~30€
• Wifi dongle : ~10€

Architecture : model B

Hardware

• Two USB ports
• 512 Mb of RAM
• CPU : 700 MHz
• Graphic Card : Broadcom VideoCore IV

Hardware

• 100 Mb Port ethernet
• Audio and video output : HDMI
• Read and write unit : SD/MMC
• Weight : 45 gram

Operating System

• Raspbian
• Android PI
• Retropie
• And so on...

Application (1/4)

Servers

• Webserver
• Minecraft server (MineCraftPI)
  • Heatsink for overclocking CPU
  • Can handle 5-6 persons
• Git server
• Owncloud server

Application (1/4)

Servers and consumption

3.5 to 5W comsumption against an average of 85W for an desktop computer

• Raspberry PI : 0.0035 x 24 x 365 = 30.66 KWh per year

  • 30.66 x 0.1329* = 4.07 €

• Desktop computer : 0.085 x 24 x 365 = 744.6 KWh per year

  • 744.6 x 0.1329* = 98.96 €

• * Price of 1 KWh at EDF

Application (2/4)

Home automation

• Turn on/off TV, lights
• Weather Sensors
• Open door
• Pull down the shutters
• See electric comsumption
• A diy home alarm system

Application (3/4)

Emulation

• Retroarch : SNES, NES, Master System, GBC, GB.
• DGEN : Genesis/Megadrive

Application (4/4)

Media Center

• Handle : Images, Musics, Videos, RSS, radios and so on
• Can be remote controlled with android application
• Many skins, can be customize
• Can add our own plugin : just use python

Intensive Project

• 14 days
• 2 teams in competition
• A remote-controlled car under Android

Voice Controller

Thanks for your attention

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