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Welcome to the Team 3 Raspberry Pi Wiki! Team 3 is an Executive Master of Business Administration Team from the University of Connecticut. We are a group of professionals from the Financial, Operations, Renewables & Utility Industries. Our task is to define and research new and emerging technology. We have chosen Raspberry Pi which is an "ultra-low-cost credit-card sized Linux computer for teaching computer programming to children". We believe this technology will pose a medium for increased concentration in and out of schools on programming and IT development that is currently lost due to the high cost of IT infrastructure. This wiki has been devloped to provide an overview for the average computer user. If you would like further detail please follow some of the links below.

You can check out the Raspberry Pi website here --> [|www.raspberrypi.org] You can check out the Raspberry Pi official Wiki here --> [|elinux.org/R-Pi_Hub] You can check out the Raspberry Pi wikipedia Wiki here --> www.wikipedia.com

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=Got Raspberry Pi?= <-- Not this Pie, This Pi --> = =

=What is Raspberry Pi?=

Raspberry Pi is a project started by a number of IT industry professionals with the goal of creating a computer for less than $100. They have succeeded and are currently manufacturing $25 & $35 computers. The first round of Raspberry Pi computers are currently sold out but orders are being taken for future shipments. expected to go on sale in late Q1 or early Q2 2012. The basis of this project was similar in nature to that of One Laptop for Every Child [|www.laptop.org] and is to make computers affordable and available to everyone.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We want to see it being used by kids all over the world to learn programming. The Raspberry Pi Beta Board Product B

media type="youtube" key="fq66RpZv3sI" height="315" width="560" This platform is also expected to make big strides with schools in the area of teaching programming to the younger generations. Because it is an ultra-low-cost open source computer that will significantly increase the amount of the world population who can own a computer.

Now lets take a closer look at the Raspberry Pi == for a more detailed look at the hardware check here.

=Why Raspberry Pi?=

Raspberry Pi opens the door to various customer bases that previously were not able to enter into the digital and more importantly the programming world. The extreme speed and progression of processing power and storage has led us to a place where an adequate computer can be produced for a highly affordable price.

Raspberry Pi will provide a programming platform for use in schools to teach programming and will be available to the students and the public to utilize in their homes and continuously progress the world of computer programming.

This movement is expected to significantly increase the volume of the world which is connected to the internet and is progressing computing and the web.

=What Can Raspberry Pi Do?= Raspberry Pi has not even been released, yet developers have already completed a number of ports of games and have written programs to work with popular devices like the IPad

Overall Raspberry Pi is a fully functional computer running the Linux operating system. Developers are porting useful programs from all operating systems to work with the Raspberry Pi; however, the main focus of Raspberry Pi is to provide a reasonably priced programming platform for use in schools and budget constrained organizations.

Videos of some of its capabilities can be found here --> Raspberry Pi Videos

=When & Where Can I Buy A Raspberry Pi?= Raspberry Pi will be is available as of the beginning of March 2012 at the end of February 2012 and will be available on the Raspberry Pi Website [|www.RaspberryPi.org]

Via the vendors below. A partnership with these vendors allows Raspberry Pi to reach greater scales and support inventory. As metioned above the Model A of the Raspberry Pi will be available for $25 and the Model B will be available for $35 (Model B adds additional RAM (256MB) and an Ethernet Port)

