Raspberry Pi Wi-Fi Ahead Of CHIP Launch

It won’t be super powerful, however, in line with Raspberry Pi’s habit of keeping things at their most basic.

Until now, users needed to select from a range of readily available USB WiFi dongles that added wireless capabilities to this little computer.

Especially for applications such as building a media server or controlling home security cameras, the inherent wireless capability will greatly aid in deploying such projects.

From the documentation submitted by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to FCC, it looks like the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B single-board computer should come with built-in Wi-Fi (2.4 GHz operation only), as well as Bluetooth LE (Low Energy) support, which might sound very attractive to all Raspberry Pi fans that have waited patiently for these features to come to the world’s most popular SBC board.

The machine is made up of just a circuit board, a single “system on a chip” and ports for connecting a screen and peripherals and comes with software created to make it easy for their owners to quickly pick up programming or customise their computer.

First pictures of the Raspberry Pi 3 have surfaced on the Internet.

The original Raspberry Pi went on sale four years ago, and more than 8,000,000 units have shipped since then.

The rest of the features haven’t changed from Pi 2. That suggests it’ll support 802.11n, but not the faster 802.11ac standard.

He still cautions that, given the spike in sales that follows each major new release of the Pi, he expects “supply will be fairly tight for the first few days”. An upgraded video core in the Pi 3 runs at 400MHz, compared to 250MHz in the Pi 2.

Both models have an integrated microSD card slot, but the Pi 3 has a friction slot, rather than the spring-loaded slot of the Pi 2. A gripe about earlier models of the Pi is that USB and Ethernet share the same data bus.

Read the full interview with the Pi’s co-creator about what the new board makes possible on TechRepublic.