Lorena and I were amazed the Rasperry Pi 3 I ordered from Amazon at 10AM yesterday morning actually arrived on our doorstep at 6PM yesterday evening. I am working on it now. My job is to get it running with a 5 mega-pixel camera. In reading about it, I found that it runs hot so I installed the two heat sinks that came with it. The heat will probably not be so bad for the work I am doing on my day job, but it might create a challenge for the GaugeCam project where we need to run our system outdoors in all kinds of weather. The CPU gets throttled if the system runs too hot and the reason we switched from the Beaglebone Black to the Raspberry Pi three was for speed considerations having to do with how we plan to use the camera. It probably will not be a problem, but it is another thing we will have to give some fairly extensive testing. The things that came in the $49.99 purchase were the Raspberry Pi 3, the wall-wart power supply, the heat sinks and the case. It turns out that if we put the top on the case, it runs enough hotter that the CPU throttles, so the case will not do us much good. The Beaglebone Black to the left is the one we are replacing. It honestly worked great with the exception that it was not possible to capture the large format (not that large actually-1280×960) images we need for our projects.
