When attempting to explain what a Raspberry Pi is to the uninitiated it seems they do not truly understand the power that such a device brings. You have a full featured computer that is the size of a credit card! This means you can do most things full sized machines can do but do it in less space. You wanna send a Pi up in a weather balloon to collect data? That is a perfect use for it. You won't see someone sending their laptop up there. This is just one of many DIY project uses of a Pi.
Another great use of the Pi and its original intention is in education. the Raspberry Pi is an amazing platform to get kids interested in computer science and programming. You could give an elementary school age child a Pi and tell them to do whatever they want with it. It is a risk free environment for them to play around a tweak with the Pi for hours. And if the seriously mess anything up then all it takes to fix it is to reformat and reinstall the lightweight operating system that was built for the Pi.
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