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Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi is a tiny, single-board computer that uses an operating system called Raspbian, based on Debian Linux. You can use it to learn programming and computer science, go online, emulate retro video games, create fun projects, and more.

The Library has Raspberry Pi 2's and 3's with touch screens and Wi-Fi, as well as keyboards and mice to use, in the Maker Hub.

Projects and Tutorials

What is Raspberry Pi?
A short video introduction to Raspberry Pi.
Getting Started
How to connect your Raspberry Pi computer and find out what it can do.
Simple Raspberry Pi Projects for Beginners
Super simple Raspberry Pi projects with tutorials and a detailed explanation of circuit diagrams, software and codes with videos.
Projects from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Here are some great projects that will help you start writing code and get going with digital making.
Raspberry Pi YouTube Channel
The official YouTube channel of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
Raspberry Pi Projects
Explore projects by topics or technology from the drop-down menus. Some projects require additional hardware and software. Please review the “what you will need” page for each project.
Hackster: Raspberry Pi Projects
Pi projects that can be sorted by category and difficulty level.
Raspberry Pi Curriculum
Activities and projects for different areas of interest, such as design, programming, and manufacturing.
Brain Game
Learn how to code using Scratch on a Raspberry Pi. Design a games, interactive stories and animation by yourself or with a friend.

Software on the Library's Pi's

Internet

BlueJ Java
A simple, powerful Java Development Environment designed for beginners
Chromium Web Browser
Claws Mail
A lightweight, fast email client
Geany Programmer’s Editor
A text editor using the GTK+ toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment (IDE)
Greenfoot Java IDE
A simple Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed to make learning programming easy, fun, and interactive with visual tools
LibreOffice
Base, Calc, Draw, Impress, Math, and Writer
The MagPi
The official Raspberry Pi magazine
Mathematica
A modern technical computing system, spanning all areas of technical computing from neural networks, machine learning, image processing, geometry, data science, visualizations, and more
Node-Red
A flow-based visual editor for wiring together hardware devices, APIs and online services in new and interesting ways
PICO-8
PICO-8 is a virtual machine created by Lexaloffle Games. It is designed to mimic a "fantasy video game console". The coding is accomplished through a Lua-based environment, in which users can create sounds, sprites, maps, and games.
Python 2 and Python 3
Integrated Development and Learning Environments (IDLE) for Python 2 and Python 3, suitable for beginners
Scratch and Scratch 2
A programming system, content development tool, and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations
Sense HAT Emulator
Graphical User Interface (GUI) for controlling an emulated Sense HAT
Sonic Pi
Learn programming and computer science while creating music
Thonny Python IDE
Python IDE for beginners, with different ways of stepping through the code, step-by-step expression evaluation, detailed visualization of the call stack and a mode for explaining the concepts of references and heap
VNC Viewer
Connects to your other computers
Wolfram
A Technical Programming Environment designed for the new generation of programmers

Games

Minecraft Pi
A small version of Minecraft
Tetromino
A Tetris clone