TEDxGranta -- Eben Upton -- Raspberry Pi

Eben Upton is the founder of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is developing a $25 microcomputer with the goal of putting programmable hardware in the hands of every child in the UK. Eben is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi device.

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  Science & Technology

[Tim Morley]

For info, the preceding talk at TEDxGranta which is referenced several times in this video — 1:01 — 6:22 — 11:11 — can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=8gSAkUOEls­g

[Thomas Duke]

It's popular for a reason but if you don't like it then don't buy it.

[shaurz]

Obviously you misunderstood what I meant. The use of Windows-based computers in education, in my opinion, is a barrier to actually learning about computers.

[Jeff ←]

Raspberry Pi is a hardware platform. Windows is an operating system. The two are not mutually exclusive.

Also, the Pi is meant to introduce kids to programming and the fun of computer science. It has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with replacing the industry de facto standard operating system.

Go buy a vtech Tote and learn about the 4-year-old level basics of computers first before typing nonsense.

[William Ellerbe]

Linux is an excellent platform for children to learn from. I still use Ubuntu and KDE through VirtualBox on my laptop, and I'm looking to learn more about Raspberry Pi.

[Sara Morgan]

To me he just sounded nervous. Hoping for 1,000 kids to get hooked on computer science doesn't sound cocky to me.

[PixelOutlaw]

Kids need a chance to program. Linux is an excellent platform. Programs can be written with very simple tools. There is really no need for a huge bloated IDE to get in the way. The Pi is a very affordable platform for kids to save up money to purchase. Many languages are freely available and you have the most powerful text editors possible in the form of Emacs and Vim.

[Gee Jackson]

I'd disagree. I was hooked from start to finish.

[TheMrKrause]

Thank you for making the PI. I just got mine... I am setting up an OS on it right now.

[Jarrod Sinclair]

Obviously you have never build anything for the masses. building one of something is not that hard, or ever 100 of something can be done with with a few buddies. But to scale up to 10k units is a whole other matter. To make things worse they receive requests in the 100s of thousands for those first 10k units. The people at RPi have done an awsome job of scaling up to 100's of thousands of units in just a few months.

[elifeleth]

toooo much bla bla bla and more bla bla, the speech is not focused