Little Bird
Raspberry Pi 3 B+ Starter Kit
A lot of fun squeeezed into a tiny computer! Everything* you need to to get started with the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, plus a friendly getting started guide.Our get...
A lot of fun squeeezed into a tiny computer! Everything* you need to to get started with the Raspberry Pi 3 B+, plus a friendly getting started guide.
Our getting started guide shows you, in a really friendly and straightforward way, how to get everything set up in a jiffy. You'll learn how to protect your Pi from bumps and bruises in our Pibow case, how to add the heat sink, the microSD card, and the Blinkt! rainbow light. Learn how to code your twinkly Blinkt! using Python, and even make a (SQUEE!) rainbow animation with it.
We'll also show you how to boot up your Pi for the first time, connect to WiFi, browse the web, play Minecraft (!!), even how to use the terminal. After you've installed our Blinkt! software (it's super simple) you'll learn how to code it with Python.
There's a sheet of 11 fun and colourful (and peel-able off-able) stickers to personalise your Pibow case, and even a name sticker.
Kit includes
- Raspberry Pi 3 B+
- Keyboard and mouse
- Pibow case
- OS with Minecraft and Scratch (on an 16GB microSD card)
- Blinkt! with 8 rainbow lights
- HDMI display cable
- Heat sink
- Worldwide power supply
- Getting started guide
- Sticker sheet with 11 stickers
*just add a monitor or TV as a display
Specifications
- 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core
- ARM Cortex-A53 CPU (BCM2837)
- 1GB RAM (LPDDR2 SDRAM)
- On-board wireless LAN - dual-band 802.11 b/g/n/ac (CYW43455)
- On-board Bluetooth 4.2 HS low-energy (BLE) (CYW43455)
- 4x USB 2.0 ports
- 300Mbit/s ethernet
- 40 GPIO pins
- Full-size HDMI 1.3a port
- Combined 3.5mm analog audio and composite video jack
- Camera interface (CSI)
- Display interface (DSI)
- microSD slot
- VideoCore IV multimedia/3D graphics core @ 400MHz/300MHz
Jargon buster
Plain-language definitions for the technical terms used above.
- Arm Cortex-A53
- A 64-bit Arm processor core commonly used in Linux-capable embedded boards. It matters because it is suited to higher-level computing tasks such as networking, graphics, and running multiple applications.
- BLE
- BLE stands for Bluetooth Low Energy, a Bluetooth mode designed for lower power use and modern phone compatibility. It matters because BLE support can make the module easier to use with Apple devices and battery-powered projects, though it may behave differently from classic serial Bluetooth.
- DSI
- DSI stands for Display Serial Interface, a high-speed connection commonly used to send video data from a computer board to a display. It matters because DSI signals are not simple GPIO wires, so the cable, connector, and signal routing need to match the display interface.
- GPIO
- General-purpose input/output pins are microcontroller pins you can set in software to read signals, switch devices on and off, or connect to peripherals. The number of GPIO pins matters because it limits how many buttons, LEDs, sensors, and other parts you can wire directly to the board.
- HDMI
- HDMI is a common digital video and audio connection used by computers, media players, and many displays. If a display kit has HDMI input, it is usually much easier to test with a single-board computer because it can act like a normal monitor.
- microSD card
- A microSD card is a small removable memory card used to store files such as audio tracks. For this product, the card is where the sound files live, so its capacity and formatting can affect how many sounds you can use.
- RAM
- RAM is temporary memory used while a device is running, and its contents are lost when power is removed. A “Run in RAM” mode is useful for testing settings without permanently programming the module, but it may not support every feature.
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