Unboxing Raspberry Pi 3

I had put an online order for a Raspberry Pi 3 (model B) couple of days back and got it delivered yesterday. For the people who don’t know what Raspberry Pi is (I also didn’t have any idea about it until few months back); it is a so called "35$ credit card sized computer". However, as you expected, in India we need to spend a little more than the exact rupees equivalent.

Model B of RPI 3 (that’s what I will call it henceforth…"Raspberry Pi 3" is too long to type and read), is a bare minimum motherboard with a quad core processor and 1 gig of RAM on it, along with integrated WiFi, Bluetooth capabilities. It also has 1 Ethernet, 1 HDMI, 1 General Purpose I/O (GPIO) and 1 AV ports. 1 Display and 1 Camera ports are available for visual stuffs. Now, it doesn’t have any on board secondary storage, but comes with a micro SD card slot that allows user to insert a flash storage chip and use it as a secondary storage device.

At this point of time, for this price what we get, appears a nice deal to me. Of course I cannot put RPI3 in a production environment…It is neither a replacement for my home PC, but is good for its own purpose. This computer is good for learning. That’s what I hear people saying. And this little fella already has a huge fan following all over the world!

I decided to buy one unit to do some administrative hands on and build some leisure time projects. Let’s see where it takes me and how my learning curve goes :-)

That was enough of ado… Now lets do the unboxing.

The packaging is very minimal and pretty unsophisticated (not that I dislike it). Unboxing a computer cannot probably take lesser than this effort and time. The below image is to show you the package contents. It includes the RPI3 itself and two pieces of paper docs. I didn’t unfold any of the docs, not sure if I would ever do it in future (disclaimer: I do not at all intend to discourage you from reading docs; they exist for all good reasons; reading them is recommended).

KYD (Know Your Device) - Most of the components are easily identifiable by their appearance (e.g. USB, HDMI, Ethernet ports etc.). Otherwise, a closer look at the on-board micro texts adjacent to each component makes the familiarisation easy. I created the following collage and marked each of the components for your ready reference.

OK...So, that's pretty much all about unboxing RPI3 model B. I plan to publish more about it as and when I explore and learn new things. For this piece of write-up, I would appreciate your valuable feedbacks.

Cheers !