hey this is Australian for me and this
is the new Raspberry Pi 3 the new
Raspberry Pi 3 looks a lot like the old
Raspberry Pi 2 at least on the surface
but while it's kept the same $35 price
tag a lot of things have changed the old
32-bit ARM v7 processor has been swapped
out for a brand new 64-bit ARM Cortex
853 clocked at 1.2 gigahertz the new
raspberry pi runs 50 percent faster than
the old Raspberry Pi and ten times
faster than the original model B but
that's not all the new board also comes
with built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth this
is a Raspberry Pi not just for the
desktop but for the internet of things
unfortunately while the hardware
supports Bluetooth both Bluetooth
classic and the arguably more useful
Bluetooth low-energy
the software doesn't at least not yes at
least not on launch day well it does I
think we're gonna see the Raspberry Pi
used far more as a hub for embedded
sensor networks collections of sensors
distributed across the environment
connecting back to the Raspberry Pi
using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy or
a mixture of both because it's a perfect
platform for the Internet of Things it's
cheap it's readily available and it's
readily understandable
pretty much everyone that's interested
in the Internet of Things that
interested in building the Internet of
Things
can get hold of it and can make use of
it which doesn't mean that it's no
longer good on the desktop side in fact
I'd say the new Raspberry Pi has crossed
the threshold it's now good enough it's
fast enough it's not it's not sluggish
anymore even for those of us that have
grown up in the shadow of Moore's law
that's quite surprising
it's not that the Raspberry Pi is
anything special although it is
especially for $35 it's that it's it's
possible at all we're living in an
interesting time right now Morris law is
coming to an end it's held for the last
40 years or so but that's pretty much
done
although companies like Intel or Atmel
or arm won't admit it yet at least not
in public and as products like the
Raspberry Pi or possibly more so the
Raspberry Pi zero that are signaling
that change this is capable computing
computing that is essentially free that
is good enough to do what you need to do
the Raspberry Pi 3d has crossed the
threshold into acceptable desktop
performance for the Internet of Things
at least you don't need acceptable
bestop performance
you just need good enough