How Raspberry Pi(an Educational Charity)

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BEN NUTTALL

RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION

Dedication

John PinnerOrganiser of PyConUK

Raspberry Pi Foundation

Raspberry Pi Foundation

UK Educational Charity based in Cambridge

Raspberry Why?

A computer (1981)

A computer (2010)

ICT Lessons

Cambridge University Computer Lab

Prototypes

Raspberry Pi Blog (2011)

Get your stickers! £1 for charity

Get your stickers! £1 for charity

Beta boards on Ebay

Raspberry Pi (2012)

700MHz single core CPU

VideoCoreIV 3D GPU

256MB RAM

$35

Raspberry Pi Model B Launch

29 February 2012

10, 000 in stock

2 online distributors

Both websites crashed

Raspberry Pi Model B Launch

29 February 2012

10, 000 in stock

2 online distributors

Both websites crashed

100, 000 orders on first day

Community

Awesome projects

Awesome projects

Awesome projects

Awesome projects

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Open source software libraries

Schools

Raspberry Pi Model B (Rev 2)

September 2012

Same CPU/GPU

512MB RAM

$35

Made in the UK

Sony Pencoed

1 Million Sales in 2012

Foundation and Trading Co

Foundation and Trading Company

Trading company● Hires engineers● Makes money

Foundation● Hires education dudes● Spends money

Raspberry Pi Model A

February 2013

Same CPU/GPU

256MB RAM

1 USB, no ethernet

$25

Google Schools Project

Education Team

Michael Gove

Michael Gove

Michael Gove

Michael Gove

New computing curriculum

“From 5, children will learn to code and program with algorithms, sequencing, selection and repetition”

“From 11, how to use at least 2 programming languages to solve computational problems, to design … computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems; and how instructions are saved and executed within a computer system”

- Michael Gove, UK Education Secretary

New computing curriculum

“From 5, children will learn to code and program with algorithms, sequencing, selection and repetition”

“From 11, how to use at least 2 programming languages to solve computational problems, to design … computational abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world problems and physical systems; and how instructions are saved and executed within a computer system”

- Michael Gove, (ex-) UK Education Secretary

Michael Gove

Investment in retraining ICT teachers

£3M

Investment in retraining ICT teachers

£170 per school

New website

Free Learning Resources

Picademy

Compute Module Development Kit

April 2014

Prototyping development board

Build a custom Raspberry Pi

$150

Compute Module

April 2014

Same spec as Raspberry Pi

Runs same software

More flexible form factor

~$30

Raspberry Pi Model B+

July 2014

Same CPU/GPU

512MB RAM

More USB, GPIO, etc.

$35

Raspberry Pi Model A+

November 2014

Same CPU/GPU

256MB RAM

Smaller profile

$20

4 Million Sales

Education Fund

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

February 2015

Quad core CPU

1GB RAM

Manufacturing 20,000 per day

6x speed of previous model

Fully compatible with Pi 1

Raspberry Pi 2 Model B

February 2015

Quad core CPU

1GB RAM

Manufacturing 20,000 per day

6x speed of previous model

Fully compatible with Pi 1

Sold 500, 000 within 2 weeks

5 Million Sales

No deprecation

Weather station project

Astro Pi

Creative Technologists

Picademy <insert country>

BETT

BETT

Take a card!

Ben NuttallDevelopment & OutreachRaspberry Pi Education Team

@ben_nuttallben@raspberrypi.orggithub.com/bennuttall