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The Raspberry Pi has sold 10 million units - continuing its success as the most popular British computer ever.
The computer, about the same size as a credit card, was first released in 2012 and is widely used as an educational tool for programming.
However, it can also be used for many practical purposes such as streaming music to several devices in a house.
A new starter kit for Raspberry Pi, including a keyboard and mouse, has been released to celebrate the success.
The kit also includes an SD storage card, official case, power supply, HDMI cable, mouse, keyboard and guidebook - it costs £99 plus VAT and will be available in the coming weeks.
Congratulations and thanks to Eben Upton and the Raspberry Pi Foundation for getting a whole new generation of kids interested in computing and reigniting passion for technology among old curmudgeonly techies.
Also reported here.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by corando on Friday September 09 2016, @04:20PM
Both, at least for me.
I bought two of the originals back in 2012, one has been a great web-server and VoIP [mumble] server.
The other is working as an ftp server... it doesn't replace my NAS but makes a handy place to put uncommonly accessed files.
Recently I have picked up a few more off eBay and use them to run some door-activated cameras.
When the B+ came out, I got it for my daughter to play with... later replaced with a v2.
She uses it to watches movies / listen to music off our NAS and plays with Scratch and Libre Office, i'm starting to introduce her to using the GPIO pins to interact with leds and such. It makes for a nice non-internet connected computer for her to play on without supervision [she just turned 9].
P.S. I set her Pi to boot to CLI, even if all she does is login and then immediately run startx, my hope is that it helps her to conceptualize that the desktop is also an application.