The Pi Shop - filling for your Raspberry Pi
The Pi Shop is a "not for profit, not for loss" shop window for Raspberry Pi ("RPi" or just "Pi") related material - see the about page for more details.
We are UK-based but we cover Pi news world-wide - and we ship products world-wide.
"Raspberry Pi" and the Raspberry Pi logo are trademarks of the Raspberry Pi Foundation which is the UK-based charity that developed the system.
Don't hide your Pi away - treat it to a PiHouse
The Raspberry Pi is small and very pretty (to us!) - so why hide it away in a box?
The PiShop is proud to offer the PiHouse and the PiStack.
The PiHouse is exactly what it says - a house for your Pi - with access to connectors from all four sides and from the top.
The PiHouse has an optional VESA (100mm x 100mm and 75mm x 75mm) compatible base plate so you can fix your Pi to the back of a monitor.
The PiStack is a stack of "things" based on the PiHouse - with the Pi at the top of the stack.
Click here for more details.
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Diary of a Linux virgin
Want to know what it is like starting out with the Raspberry Pi when you have never used Linux and all this Open Source stuff before?
Have a read of our "Diary of a Linux virgin."
This is a Raspberry Pi
What is a Raspberry Pi (RPi)?
It's a computer.
It can do almost anything any other computer can do:
- Office-type stuff: word processing, spreadsheets, presentations etc.
- Programming-type stuff: you can write your own programs on it.
- Control stuff: you can control things like robots - anything with flashing lights, sensors and motors - RPi can handle it.
- It can link to the Internet for browsing, email etc.
- It can play videos - the output is High Definition - 1920 x 1080 pixels.
No, it doesn't run Windows or Microsoft Office - it doesn't need to.
So what's so special about it?
It's small: credit card size.
It's cheap: under £30 inclusive of shipping and VAT in the UK.
The most commonly used software packages: operating system, word processor, spreadsheet, presentations, databases, picture editing, computer languages; cost nothing because RPi uses Open Source material from the Operating System (Linux) down to the applications you use every day (LibreOffice) and the languages to may wish to use for programming (Python).
What other bits do you need?
Not much.
- Keyboard and mouse - any PC USB kit will do - or you could go wireless.
- Screen - an HD TV or monitor will do.
- Power supply - mini-USB style as used with mobile phones will do.
- SD card (8GB upwards) to store the Operating System (Linux Fedora - free), software and data.
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