Raspberry Pi Foundation
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| Formation | May 2009 |
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| Founder | David Braben, Jack Lang, Pete Lomas, Alan Mycroft, Robert Mullins, Eben Upton |
| Registration no. | 1129409 |
| Legal status | Charity |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Products | Raspberry Pi |
| Fields | Computer science |
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Chairman
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David Cleevely |
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Main organ
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Board of trustees |
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Revenue (2013)
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£2,019,972 |
| Expenses (2013) | £1,863,901 |
| Mission | "To further the advancement of education of adults and children, particularly in the field of computers, computer science and related subjects." |
| Website | www |
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity founded in 2009 to promote the study of basic computer science in schools, and is responsible for developing a single-board computer called the Raspberry Pi, the UK's best-selling PC of all time.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charitable organization registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales. The board of trustees was assembled by 2008 and the Raspberry Pi Foundation was founded as a registered charity in May 2009 in Caldecote, Cambridgeshire, UK. The Foundation is supported by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory and Broadcom. Its aim is to "promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing." Project co-founder Eben Upton is a former academic, currently employed by Broadcom as a system-on-chip architect and associate technical director. Components, albeit in small numbers, were able to be sourced from suppliers, due to the charitable status of the organization.
When the declining of numbers and skills of students applying for Computer Science became a concern for a team that included Eben Upton, Rob Mullins, Jack Lang and Alan Mycroft at the University of Cambridge’s Computer Laboratory in 2006, a need for a tiny and affordable computer came to their minds. Several versions of the early Raspberry Pi prototypes were designed but were very limited by the high cost and low power processors for mobile devices at that time.
In 2008, the team started a collaboration with Pete Lomas, MD of Norcott Technologies and David Braben, the co-author of the seminal BBC micro game Elite, and formed the Raspberry Pi Foundation. Three years later, the Raspberry Pi Model B was born and it had sold over two million units within in two years of mass production.
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