As Ethereum ecosystem grows supporting the Ethereum network by running a full node has never been so important. The Raspberry pi is a pretty good option to do so:
- There are lots of Raspberry Pis out there
- The support by the community is Huge
- Low cost and low power consumption
Note that the current raspberry pi 3 is not able to run a full node: Processing power, i/o bandwidth, and network bandwidth, mostly make it impossible to run a full node. Maybe this may have change with the raspberry pi 4 – 4 GB?
Follow my tutorial at
https://github.com/Tokens-Economy/EthereumNodePi/blob/master/README.md
Pull request and comments are welcomed using Github above.
Though it may be a bit hard to run, you can definitely get an Ethereum node working on a Raspberry Pi! It may be a smarter idea to run a light node though, as these require less intensive resources, and are quicker to sync.