Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in collaboration with Broadcom. The Foundation was set up in 2008 by a group including Eben Upton, in response to a fall in the number and skill of students applying to study computer science at the University of Cambridge, and its aim was a cheap computer that would rekindle interest in programming among schoolchildren. The first commercial board, the Model B, launched on 29 February 2012 at $35, and demand was so heavy that the sites of both initial distributors crashed. The boards are built around a custom system on a chip with HDMI output, USB ports, wireless networking, GPIO pins and microSD storage, and they have since been used in industrial automation, robotics, home automation and hobbyist projects. About 68 million units had been sold by March 2025.
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originally developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation
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The first commercial Raspberry Pi, the Model B, was launched on 29 February 2012
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originally developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation
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a series of small single-board computers (SBCs)
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Available in multiple versions delivering 5.1V at different power levels
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He is also a co-founder of and works as a trustee for the Raspberry Pi Foundation
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