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    The AV life of Pi

    Sep 22, 2019 4 minutes
    Adam Turner

    Starting at $60, the Raspberry Pi is an absolute barebones computer. It doesn’t even have onboard storage; instead it runs Linux from a memory card. And keep in mind it’s BYO microUSB card, USB-C power supply and anything else you want to connect, such as a monitor, keyboard or mouse.

    When the first Raspberry Pi landed back in 2012 it had barely enough grunt to run a stripped-down Linux desktop but, to be fair, it was never really intended as a budget desktop replacement. Instead, the Raspberry Pi is a building block for a DIY project — think of it as the electronics equivalent of Lego.

    As each iteration of the Raspberry Pi has packed more grunt, it has shaped

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