Wednesday 9 October 2013

Rory Cellan-Jones on one million Raspberry Pis - who's making most use of them?

Yesterday Rory Cellan-Jones reported that Britain had now seen its millionth Raspberry Pi created and gave some examples of projects that are using it.

He also said that the Raspberry Pi project...
"...may have inspired middle-aged hobbyists around the world to invent all sorts of weird and wonderful things, from a Pi-powered bear leaping out of a balloon to any number of robots, musical instruments and vehicles.

But for the Raspberry Pi Foundation that was never the aim. Their mission was to transform the way children in the UK - and then in other countries - understood and used computers.

True, the Raspberry Pi has been an important part of the debate which has seen the ICT curriculum ripped up and a commitment to bring in coding for children from the age of five next September.

But there isn't an awful lot of evidence that a computer designed for children is in the hands of many at the moment."
Read the full news story below
How the Raspberry Pi powers big and small projects BBC News (8 October 2013)

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