The Raspberry Pi is a type of circuit board sold by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the UK.
The Raspberry Pi was first conceived in 2006 by Eben Upton, a computer scientist at the University of Cambridge before working for prestigious companies, like Broadcom, Intel and IBM, with the creation of the first prototypes inspired from the BBC Micro from Acorn computers he used at school.
In 2009, Eben Upton created the Raspberry Pi Foundation to structure the Raspberry Pi development.
A list of the Raspberry Pi models along with their characteristics
The Model A is the low-cost variant of the Raspberry Pi Model B. They got to this price by making choices on hardware components: less USB ports and ram for example.
On the 29 February 2012, The Raspberry Pi Foundation released this UFO on the computer market. It was immediately a success with 500,000 sales in the first 6 months.
The Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is the second-generation Raspberry Pi. It replaced the original Raspberry Pi 1 Model B+ in February 2015.
Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ is a smaller, cheaper, lower-powered Pi 3 and it’s on sale at just US$ 25. This Pi is ideal for projects in which you need the speed and processing power of the Pi 3 but can live without ethernet, multiple USB ports, and extra RAM.
Exactly four years ago the original 256MB Raspberry Pi Model B, Eben Upton release the Raspberry Pi 3 to replace the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B the 29th February 2016.
Announced on 24th June 2019, the Raspberry Pi 4 offer a brand new design, enabling dual-monitor setups while maintaining a slim design
The Raspberry Pi 5 has arrived. It benefits from a noticeable improvement in its performance, as well as some new features. Three new chips was designed specifically for the Raspberry Pi 5 program : BCM2712, RP1 and DA9091.
Raspberry foundation released Pi Zero