After its launch in February 2016, I got a first hand experience of the
64bit beast, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B - the third generation
Raspberry Pi. This is a likable move for micro-controller enthusiasts
who were living in boring Pi 2 era!
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| The Quad Core Beast |
The first impressions are:
- Voila- you have Wi-Fi build in !
- Powerful Quad Core CPU under the hood
- 64bit Architecture
- Bluetooth LE
I choose the
Raspbian-Jessie Operating System, based on
Debian Linux.You knew Jessie right? A popular character in Toy Story 2.
Of course I choose it not because of Jessie alone ;-) It is a complete
OS with Office suite and Language Editors (BlueJ, Greenfoot, etc). The image size is around a whooping 4.3GB and for
8GB card owners there will not be enough room to live! Remember the
days, when we tried Red Hat in 4GB Seagate drives!
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| Easy 802.11n Wi-Fi |
On the communication aspects, I created a hot spot in my phone and was able to connect immediate without any hassles with the Pi3 Wi-Fi module
The website specified the following differences comparing to the earlier "Grand Boards"
- A 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARMv8 CPU
- 802.11n Wireless LAN
- Bluetooth 4.1
- Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
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| Pi 3 at its naked glory |
Overwhelmed by the Quad Core CPU, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth LE, it seems
like the intense of WWIII between Micro Controllers and Micro Processors!
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