Review: Raspberry Pi 5

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A Raspberry Pi is a single‑board computer designed to make computing and programming accessible to everyone. It’s about the size of a credit card but functions like real PC – it has USB ports, HDMI output, networking, and even GPIO pins for electronics projects.

It is developed in the UK by Raspberry Pi Holdings, and the devices are widely used in education, hobby electronics, robotics, home automation, and even industrial automation.

What you can use it for?

Raspberry Pi common uses include:

you can use it as you would a real PC, since an official Raspberry Pi OS functions similar to Windows or MacOS
programming (Python, JavaScript, C, etc.)
robotics and electronics projects via GPIO pins
smart home systems
retro gaming consoles
home servers (file server, media server, VPN)
IoT devices

Specs

Raspberry Pi packs quite a punch for its size:

Broadcom BCM2712 2.4GHz quad-core 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU,
VideoCore VII GPU
1GB, 2GB, 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of RAM
Dual 4Kp60 HDMI display output
Wi-Fi and Gigabit Ethernet networking
Bluetooth 5.0
microSD card slot for the operating system
4x USB ports
2 × 4-lane MIPI camera/display port
PCIe 2.0 interface for fast peripherals
40-pin header
5V/5A DC power via USB-C, with Power Delivery support
40-pin GPIO header to interact with the outside world

Physical overview

The Raspberry Pi board is about the size of a credit card.