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TEN MILLIONTH RASPBERRY PI, AND A NEW KIT
When we started Raspberry Pi, we had a simple goal: to increase the number of
people applying to study Computer Science at Cambridge. By putting cheap,
programmable computers in the hands of the right young people, we hoped that
we might revive some of the sense of excitement about computing that we had
back in the 1980s with our Sinclair Spectrums, BBC Micros and Commodore 64s.
At the time, we thought our lifetime volumes might amount to ten thousand units
– if we were lucky. There was was no expectation that adults would use Raspberry
Pi, no expectation of commercial success, and certainly no expectation that four
years later we would be manufacturing tens of thousands of units a day in the UK,
and exporting Raspberry Pi all over the world.
The first two thousand Raspberry Pis. Each Pi in this pallet now has 5000 siblings.
With this in mind, you can imagine how strange it feels to be able to announce
that over the last four and a half years we’ve sold a grand total of ten million
Raspberry Pis. Thanks to you, we’ve beaten our wildest dreams by three orders of
magnitude, and we’re only just getting started. Every time you buy a Raspberry Pi,
you help fund both our ongoing engineering work, and our educational outreach
programs, including Code Club and Picademy.
Very early on, we decided that we would offer the bare-bones Raspberry Pi board
without accessories: that way, cost-conscious customers get the lowest possible
price, provided they can beg or borrow USB peripherals, a power supply and an SD
card. Over the years, Raspberry Pi distributors have built on this, producing some
fantastic bundles for people who would rather get everything they need from a
single source.
To celebrate the ten millionth Raspberry Pi, for the first time we’ve put together our
own idea of what the perfect bundle would look like, creating the official Raspberry
Posted by Eben Upton
Raspberry Pi Founder
Founder
8th Sep 2016 at 9:00 am
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Pi Starter Kit.
The starter kit, unboxed and ready to go
Inside the minimalist white box (like the official case, another beautiful Kinneir
Dufort design), you’ll find:
A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
An 8GB NOOBS SD card
An official case
An official 2.5A multi-region power supply
An official 1m HDMI cable
An optical mouse and a keyboard with high-quality scissor-switch action
A copy of Adventures in Raspberry Pi Foundation Edition
