July 5, 2013 AT 7:56 am
The life of Pi: how Britain’s biggest hardware hit for a generation came to be @Raspberry_Pi #raspberrypi
The life of Pi: how Britain’s biggest hardware hit for a generation came to be @ Wired UK.
Devised, designed and now built in the UK, the Raspberry Pi is a global success story. Envisaged as a niche educational product, its creators hoped it might reach sales of 10,000 units. In fact, it sold a million before its first anniversary in February. Though created to teach kids about coding, such is its openness that it has been used — among other things — to operate atweeting toy chicken, create a cocktail-pouring robot, and send pictures of a mini Tardis from the edge of space.
The Raspberry Pi may not be slick, but it has managed to stir something not seen in British computing for a generation: it has inspired a culture of making things — not just experiencing things — with computers.
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