Raspberry Pi: Everyone Wants a Taste

By: Sarah Murry Posted: Feb. 01, 2013

Who would have thought that a tiny, affordable, bare-bones computer could spark the imaginations of so many? Far outshining initial expectations, nearly a million Raspberry Pi computers have been sold in the past year, according to a recent New York Times profile of Raspberry Pi Foundation co-founder and Broadcom engineer Eben Upton.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, which started selling the $35 device about a year ago, encourages young people to explore computer science and boost teaching basic programming in …

Broadcom MASTERS Finalists Get a Taste of Raspberry Pi

By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: Oct. 03, 2012

Looking for proof that the social media revolution has today’s young generation thinking differently? Look no further than the Broadcom MASTERS finalists, a group of inquisitive middle-schoolers who have succeeded in engineering the near-impossible.

Earlier this week at the MASTERS event in Washington D.C., these budding young scientists took on the challenge of enhancing a basic version of the classic PC game “Snake” by tweaking the code and programming on of the affordable Raspberry Pi computers.

The …

Broadcom’s Eben Upton Named Among MIT’s “35 Innovators Under 35″

By: Natalie Martinez Posted: Aug. 21, 2012

Broadcom’s Eben Upton and his so-simple-it’s-revolutionary Raspberry Pi have been recognized in this year’s class of “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT’s Technology Review, which seeks young innovators whose “work is likely to be influential for a very long time.”

Upton, Technical Director in the Mobile and Wireless Group at Broadcom’s Cambridge, UK, office, helped create the Raspberry Pi, a $25 computer that’s ripe for tinkering.

Read Broadcom’s news release.

The aim of the affordable device is …

Attention Raspberry Pi-oneers! Broadcom Helps Spread the Raspberry Jam

By: Sarah Murry Posted: Aug. 17, 2012

True to Broadcom’s spirit of innovation, we’re proud to co-sponsor the latest in a series of “Raspberry Jams”— informal meetups for fans of the $25 Raspberry Pi computer that’s being used to promote programming and other basic computer science skills in schools.

Developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the credit card-sized computer has captured the imagination of techies, teacher, hobbyists and do-it-yourselfers since its launch earlier this year. It is the brainchild of the foundation, which was co-founded by Eben …

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