Raspberry Pi Launch – A PC For The Price Of A Pair Of Jeans £22
or less can buy a Linux-based computer to teach the principles
of computing to a new generation of programmers This morning saw
the worldwide launch of Raspberry Pi – a credit-card sized,
single-board computer, developed by the charity organisation
Raspberry Pi Foundation. Even though today’s sales were limited
to one unit per customer, the 10,000 computers sold out in just
a few hours. Pre-orders for the next batch have been opened.
Since then, Raspberry Pi has become a trending topic worldwide,
gaining more attention in the media than Apple’s iPad 3 launch
event announcement or Justin Bieber’s Birthday. Not enough
raspberries Six years after the project’s inception, Raspberry
Pi Foundation has finally launched the computer that it hopes
will inspire a new generation of programmers. It believes in the
need for more developers to understand what truly goes on “under
the hood” of a computing device. The UK-based charity is devoted
to promoting the