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Raspberry Pi starter Kit Buying Guide

Confused with which Raspberry pi starter kit to go for ? Don’t worry, we came with this selection guide to select the starter kit as per your need. If you had visited our store, you may seen that we have variety of starter kit in our store and there are chances that you may get confused with, what are difference between these starter kit?

 

This guide is mainly focused on Raspberry Pi starter kit on the Edwin Robotics Online store, let us show you what are the different starter kit we have in the store:

These are the kit we offer for the Raspberry Pi. Let us see what are the differences between these kits:

Raspberry Pi Zero Budget Pack – Includes Pi Zero v1.3

This is the only kit we offer for the Raspberry Pi zero. Users who are willing to build projects using Raspberry Pi Zero, this budget pack is best suitable to start with. The Kit consist of following items:

 

 

Now, leaving aside Raspberry Pi zero, we have four varieties of kit available for Raspberry Pi 3, Refer the below table to check the contents under each kit:

 

RetroPie Gaming Kit Black/White

Starter Kit Black/White

Media Center Kit Black/White

Raspberry Pi 3
5V 3A Power Adapter
Official Case

USB Game Controller

Heat Sink
Mini IR Remote

microSD card (16GB, Class 10 )

OSMC

Raspbian
Raspbian

 

 

Refer the following points to be noted from the table

  • Raspberry Pi 3 is common in all the kits
  • 5v, 3A power supply Adapter is common in all the Kits
  • Official black case are highlighted black. Same black case is available in both the kits
  • Same Official White case is available in both the kits
  • Media center Kit comes with IR Remote and receiver, whereas Starter kit comes with Heat sink for the Raspberry Pi 3
  • Media Center Kit is loaded with Open source media center configured for the IR remote we providing.
  • Starter Kit is loaded with latest Raspbian OS with default firmware updates.

 

 

 

Thus, the Media center Kit and Starter Kit comes with two different OS for different purposes. If you are looking to dedicate your Raspberry pi for music, videos, movies, internet, then we will recommend you to go for media center kit which is loaded with OSMCOSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media player based on Linux. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based on the Kodi project. Refer our blog on Media center for better idea on OSMC capabilities.

If you are looking to build some projects using raspberry Pi, sensors and I/O devices, then use our Raspberry pi starter kit, which is loaded with Raspbian, Raspbian is a free operating system based on Debian optimized for the Raspberry Pi hardware, it comes with over 35,000 packages, pre-compiled software bundled in a nice format for easy installation on your Raspberry Pi.
We hope, now things are more clear to you. Click the links below to order kit based on your requirement:

 

If you are willing to order one customized kit as per you requirement, Contact us with your requirements.  we will get back to you as early as possible.

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