Introduction

Hi! I’m Tim Warner, and I am happy to be your guide to the Raspberry Pi. My goal for this Introduction is to get you excited about this $35 credit card-sized computer that we call the Raspberry Pi.

“What in the world can you do with a $35 computer?” you might ask. Well let’s have a look at a representative smattering of some popular Raspberry Pi projects, and you can answer that question for yourself:

Image Picade Arcade Cabinet (http://is.gd/i4YwQ2). This is a tiny, fully-functional arcade machine.

Image Pi in the Sky (http://is.gd/4niEMV). The ...

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