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Technologist David Bombal has a one-hour interview with Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton. The interview covers a range of topics, starting with the big questions about unit availability and when more stock will be available.
00:00 - Intro: Tough Environment
00:07 - Intro: Eben Upton hacked the network as a kid
00:40 - Raspberry Pi shortage (stock availability)
07:22 - People say that you're not looking after hobbyists!
10:12 - Raspberry Pi OS is backwards compatible
12:37 - The pain affecting all of us
16:33 - The origin of the Raspberry Pi // How it started
23:16 - Eben hacked the school network // Creating an environment for young hackers
32:05 - Changing the Cambridge and the World
35:00 - African growth and plans
40:03 - General purpose Computer vs iPhone vs Chromebook
43:28 - Possible IPO and Raspberry Pi Foundation
44:50 - The Raspberry Pi RP2040
48:33 - How is Raspberry Pi funded?
49:10 - How is the next product decided?
50:22 - Raspberry Pi Foundation sticking to its roots
51:17 - Advice for the youth or anyone new
56:01 - Changing roles // From tech to business
57:08 - Do you need to go to university? // Do you need degrees?
01:00:05 - Learning from experiences
01:01:44 - Creating opportunities
01:05:05 - Conclusion
No transcript is available and Eben does speak very quickly. Also published on YouTube if you do not have the obligatory LBRY account to block the algorithmic "recommendations".
Previously:
(2023) You Can Build This Raspberry Pi-Powered, 4G Linux Phone
(2023) Raspberry Pi Just Launched a Handy New $12 Tool. Here's What It Can Do
(2023) Raspberry Pi Powered Compute Blade Makes the Cut
(2023) Raspberry Pi Produced 10 Million RP2040s in 2021, More Pi Stores Likely
(2022) Raspberry Pi 5 Not Arriving in 2023 as Company Hopes for a "Recovery Year"
(2022) Raspberry Pi Adds 100,000 Units to Supply Chain, Back to Pre-Pandemic Levels in 2023
... and many more.
(Score: 2) by bmimatt on Wednesday May 17, @11:25PM
You know, data structures and algorithms type stuff, compiler type stuff, digital electronics type stuff. And I was just aware that there was, there was clearly a missing chunk of stuff that I needed.And that's why I went back and studied the diploma here. That's why I came back and did the conversion course. That's what kind of drove me out of my first startup and back into academia. - I mean, this is a great place to work, or if I wanna go and work for No, it's not that, well I think the name and from what I've seen is amazing - We do fun stuff, right? I mean. - Yeah, exactly, I mean.- And it's the deepest of deep tech. There's not much tech this deep in the UK. - Exactly. - You know, there's a lot of, and you know, that's not to disparage the FinTech. There are people who are building writing software, you know, running consumer focused software. But, you know, there aren't many companies doing the super deep stuff here in the UK.- But how would I get here? - So what do we hire? They generally do have pretty good academics, but I wouldn't say that we hire, you know, we're not particularly Cambridge snobs. I would say we have as many people from York as we do from Cambridge. There are other universities in the UK compared to Cambridge and Cambridge produces some amazing graduates.But if you think about that, that trade off between practical and theoretical skills, there are other trade off points and there are for our needs, there are the universities that hit those trade off points in their courses a little better than Cambridge does. So when we're taking people from Cambridge, we're usually taking people who happen to have gone to Cambridge, but who were hobbyist programmers beforehand and who've got their hobbyist stamp, their crafts person stamp somewhere else.So we take people with good academics, but not necessarily, doesn't necessarily have to have to be Oxbridge. We only really take people, certainly into the hardware and software teams. We sometimes talk about have you ever written a computer program you didn't have to write, you know, one that you didn't have to do for your course, one that you didn't have to do for your employer.Did you ever build an electronic product or write a computer program you didn't have to write. So people who have demonstrated some kind of personal passion for this stuff, it's a pretty good discriminate at that, right? You know, that really does discriminate very well. And, of course, you know, one of the challenges is the over discriminates a little bit because what you're doing is you're discriminating against people who've had, who've lacked the opportunity to do that.And so to some extent what you're seeing with Raspberry Pi, it's a closed loop system, right? it's a, we kind of soup to nuts. You can see we're a foundation which is dedicated to giving every child the opportunity to discover that they like competing at a venue in our hardware platforms and our educational resources.A venue in which they can work on that. And that then makes it more justifiable. Will in due course make it more justifiable for us to operate this hiring policy, which could be seen otherwise as being discriminating in the bad sense, not discriminating in the good sense. - I see it a lot in like other fields as well, like technical fields.If you aren't prepared to put in your own effort and do your own thing, it's like, are you really actually, is this really what you wanna do? And I mean what you've got with Raspberry Pis, I mean obviously it doesn't apply to everyone, but for a lot of us, we have no excuse because we've got a device that we can hack on, or - Yeah, that's right.Play on or do something with. - And one of the wonderful things here is we now employ people, small number of people in their twenties who got their start on the Raspberry Pi. - That's great. Right, so that's, that closed loop system is now starting to establish itself and we've got more work to do to make it, to keep it going, to make it happen.But we're on the road now, which is, and earlier back to the idea that the computer industry, the workforce and the computer industry in 10, 20, 30 years time is gonna look a lot more like society than it does today. And that's gonna be in part, I hope because of the work that we've done with the foundation.- Eben, I really wanna thank you, you know, for taking so much time to talk to me, just for everyone who's watching, we've done a lot today and I really wanna thank you for, you know, taking all this time to share, but also to, you know, encourage millions around the world to change their lives through what you've created, but also sharing your knowledge.- Thank you. I mean it's weird, right? I've been working on this since 2006, right. You know, this is a, it's getting on for a 20 year endeavor now. And the remarkable thing about it is it's still good fun. You know, I'm an inveterate. Before we did this, I saw myself as an inveterate, doer of things for four years.I thought that was my time period for working on anything was four years. This is coming up to towards 20 now. So just wonderful to have a chance to chat about it. Thank you very much. - It's fantastic. And I mean, I just wanna say thank you for changing lives through what you've created. I mean, I'm from South Africa.You know, these kind of devices give people in places that are perhaps not as privileged, the opportunities to change their lives. So thanks so much. - Awesome. Thank you.