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IOT Breakthrough : TensorFlow 1.9 Officially Supports the Raspberry Pi

Hey Readers! Good news for all the "cheap fair power" computer fans, as a result of a major collaboration effort between TensorFlow and Raspberry Pi foundation, one can now install tensorflow precompiled binaries using Python's pip package system! 

When TensorFlow was first launched in 2015, they wanted it to be an “open source machine learning framework for everyone”. To do that, they needed to run on as many of the platforms that people are using as possible. They have long supported Linux, MacOS, Windows, iOS, and Android, but despite the heroic efforts of many contributors, running TensorFlow on a Raspberry Pi has involved a lot of work.

If one is using Rasbian9 they can simply use these 2 commands to install tensorflow on their machine!

$ sudo apt install libatlas-base-dev
$ pip3 install tensorflow
view raw simplecommands.sh hosted with ❤ by GitHub


According to an excerpt from TensorFlow's medium article page : 

"We’re excited about this because the Raspberry Pi is used by many innovative developers, and is also widely used in education to introduce people to programming, so making TensorFlow easier to install will help open up machine learning to new audiences. We’ve already seen platforms like DonkeyCar use TensorFlow and the Raspberry Pi to create self-driving toy cars, and we can’t wait to discover what new projects will be built now that we’ve reduced the difficulty.
Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Pi project, says, “It is vital that a modern computing education covers both fundamentals and forward-looking topics. With this in mind, we’re very excited to be working with Google to bring TensorFlow machine learning to the Raspberry Pi platform. We’re looking forward to seeing what fun applications kids (of all ages) create with it,” and we agree!
We’re hoping to see a lot more educational material and tutorials emerge that will help more and more people explore the possibilities of machine learning on such a cost-effective and flexible device."
For those who are thinking what the hell is RaspberryPi:

The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse. It is a capable little device that enables people of all ages to explore computing, and to learn how to program in languages like Scratch and Python.

 A Simple Program using TensorFlow in Rasbian9:

import tensorflow as tf
tf.enable_eager_execution()
myCons = tf.constant('The Classic Hello World!')
print(myCons)
view raw myTensor.py hosted with ❤ by GitHub

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