Summary
The kit also includes a good quality 27W USB-C power supply (5V/5A), 2 HDMI cables, a card reader, a small screwdriver, and a bag of screws. Everything needed to get started.
The 27W power supply is a must have item. You don’t want to use a Pi 5 with say a power supply designed for the Pi 4 as that can cause stability issues, particularly if you attach certain USB devices such as portable hard disks.
At the time of writing the kit is priced at £139.99. It’s good value and represents a great present for someone new to the Raspberry Pi scene. Having the pre-installed operating system is welcome for an absolute beginner, but writing an operating system to the card is a very simple process.
Pages in this article:
Page 1 – Introduction and Installation
Page 2 – Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer
Page 3 – Metal Case and Active Cooler
Page 4 – microSD card
Page 5 – Summary
All articles in this series:
| Raspberry Pi 5 Series | |
|---|---|
Hardware | |
| iRasptek Starter Kit | All the kit you need to get started with the Pi 5 |
| Pironman 5 Case Review | Transform the Pi 5 into a beautiful desktop mini PC |
| Passive Cooling the Pi 5 | Passively cool your Pi 5 the right way. Silent yet cool |
| Benchmarking | Benchmarking the Pi 5 against an Intel N100 mini PC |
| Overclocking | Let's increase the clock speed of the BCM2712 SoC |
| Power Consumption | Compare the power consumption of the Pi 5 with Intel Mini PCs |
| 2.5Gbps Networking | Improving the wired performance of the Pi 5 |
| WiFi | Improve WiFi performance of the Pi 5 |
| Desktop PC | Is the Pi 5 good value compared to an Intel N100 Mini PC? |
Configuration | |
| raspi-config | Useful text-based tool to configure the Pi 5 |
| PiGro | GUI tool that streamlines the process of managing the Pi 5 |
| Increase Swap Memory Size | Increase the swap size from 512MB to 2GB |
| ZRAM swapdrive | Simple script to use a ZRAM swapdrive instead of a swapfile |
Software | |
| Installing Software | Different ways to install software on the Pi 5 |
| df snap pollution | Replace df with dysk |
| Ollama GUI | Running Large Language Models on the Pi 5 |
| Music Players | GUI and TUI music players explored |
| Internet Radio | Exploring the best options for both GUI and TUI software |
| Many software articles are planned. Stay tuned! | |
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