*Wired UK kinda firing on all its Rolls Royce cylinders with this one.
http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/07/features/the-life-of-pi
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"Devised, designed and now built in the UK, the Raspberry Pi is a global success story. Envisaged as a niche educational product, its creators hoped it might reach sales of 10,000 units. In fact, it sold a million before its first anniversary in February. Though created to teach kids about coding, such is its openness that it has been used – among other things – to operate a tweeting toy chicken, create a cocktail-pouring robot, and send pictures of a mini Tardis from the edge of space.
"The Raspberry Pi may not be slick, but it has managed to stir something not seen in British computing for a generation: it has inspired a culture of making things – not just experiencing things – with computers.
It's a misty, grey Sunday in March as Wired arrives at Raspberry Pi's new headquarters in Cambridge. The office itself looks to be in mid-hack: wires hang from the ceiling and the detritus of inventive thought – cables, a camera, chocolates, a wind-up robot – cover the desks. Although it's the weekend, the office is teeming with activity: the head of hardware engineering is busy, as is the head of software. The latter, Gordon Hollingworth, who recently joined from chip-maker Broadcom, is making coffee.
"The head of educational development, who has been part of the team for two weeks, walks in to the office, and executive director and founding trustee Eben Upton arrives, along with the head of communications, his wife Liz. Even Paul Beech, who designed the Raspberry Pi logo, is here – and he lives in Sheffield. The team is together to mark the first anniversary of the launch of the Pi and to prepare for an important meeting with an unnamed international technology company the following day...."
