Are you a tech guy and loves doing experiments? Then you must be familiar with Raspberry Pi. A small powerful board which can handle a lot of your task. IoT experiments can easily be done with Raspberry Pi. Its cost effective and gives you the power of the real computer. Raspberry Pi 4 has launched and some of the amazing new features with a price tag starting $35.
New Features of Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 4 comes with a more powerful processor, USB-C port, 2xMicro HDMI ports support 4K display, 2 x USB, 2 x USB3.0 port and a Gigabit network port. There are multiple variants available having 1GB, 2GB, and 4GB of RAM. Technical details are as
- Broadcom BCM2711, Quad-core Cortex-A72 (ARM v8) 64-bit SoC @ 1.5GHz
- 1GB, 2GB or 4GB LPDDR4-2400 SDRAM
- 2.4 GHz and 5.0 GHz IEEE 802.11ac wireless, Bluetooth 5.0
- 2 USB 3.0 ports and 2 USB 2.0 ports.
- Gigabit Ethernet Adopter
- Raspberry Pi standard 40 pin GPIO header (fully backward compatible with previous boards)
- 2 × micro-HDMI ports support up to 4K of dual display.
- 2-lane MIPI DSI display port
- 4-pole stereo audio and composite video port
- H.265 (4kp60 decode), H264 (1080p60 decode, 1080p30 encode)
- OpenGL ES 3.0 graphics
- 2-lane MIPI CSI camera port
- Micro-SD card slot for loading operating system and data storage
- 5V DC via USB-C connector
- 5V DC via GPIO header
- Power over Ethernet (PoE) enabled
- Operating temperature: 0 – 50 degrees C ambient
What Operating System is Supported
There are multiple operating systems supported by Raspberry Pi 4. You can install any of the operating system available in the market. Microsoft provides Windows 10 IoT Core for Raspberry Pi which can be downloaded from Microsoft Website.
You can also use Raspbian OS from the Raspberry Pi store. There are two Linux variants available. NOOBS and Raspbian. Click here to download any of them. Some of third-party operating systems are:
