“Our dream is to make the Raspberry Pi in PCs for everyone” Interview with Eben Upton

About a year ago, we read a interview of Eben Upton, the creator of Raspberry Pi. At that time, we reviewed the launch of Raspberry Pi 2 and that, the next steps of this project.

A year later we wanted to go to new questions to put to this time are especially focused on new Raspberry Pi Zero, version “minimalist” is that if RPI were not already- a concept that remains pillar of the movement maker and it has also influenced significantly in certain areas of education.

Patience: The RPI Zero arrive

We began by asking the head of the Raspberry Pi Foundation by the current situation of the Raspberry Pi Zero, models caused a sensation for its performance but especially for its low price. The demand for these small miniPCs 5 dollars again exceeded the forecasts of the foundation, but its leaders are working hard to cope with the situation.

As Upton explained, this is something that happened to other products in the family in its market. “We do a lot of in this case 100,000 units for the first lot- but demand exceeds supply, even with the limitation of a device for the person that we have.” He added that it will take some time to increase the pace of production and that it requires users to have patience in this regard.

They are about to reach 8 million Raspberry Pis sold in December 2015 and sold more than 300,000 units

It is now easy to find a small Raspberry Pi Zero, and indeed, there is a backup system to facilitate this task, which stood precisely Upton: “I do not like reservation systems for the same reason I do not like the collective funding. If there are delays (and always are) people feel you have been cheated because they “promised” a device at a particular time.”

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What to do to get a Raspberry Pi Zero? His advice was “to have monitored the Twitter accounts of the four distributors (Adafruit, Pimoroni, Pi Hut and Micro Center)“, since those dealers normally notified before make available to users a new batch of RPIS Zero, and those usually lots put up for sale a few hours.

Who should use a Raspberry Pi 2 to whom a Raspberry Pi Zero?

Upton was not worried about the possible cannibalization of sales Raspberry Pi 2 at the hands of the new RPI Zero, and gave us actually, believed “that complemented.” In his view there is no danger that sales of affecting each other, and believes that “people will use the Zero with her older sisters.”

Some users may wonder what sets these two models of the Raspberry Pi There are other slightly older, but these are the most popular today- and just wanted to know the opinion of the creator of these miniPCs.

Eben Upton expected the Zero RPI would be used in general “as embedded devices,” while pointing to the RPI in February would be used “as a general purpose computer.” Although users will do just the opposite, we said, the “generic pattern is that” he claimed.

Sales rise, ambition also

When a year ago we talked about the sales of the Raspberry Pi, Upton told us that they had already sold about 5.5 million units of these devices, and only during the month of December 2014 had sold 200,000. A year later, the numbers have grown significantly: they are about to reach 8 million Raspberry Pis, and in December 2015 sold more than 300,000 units, “so we continue to see good growth” highlighted.

Those sales have been bolstered by the huge role that the Raspberry Pi are developing in that movement maker makes more and more users to experience and become creators of all kinds of nifty hardware (and software) solutions based on the Raspberry Pi. We now go over some of the highlights, but we asked Upton for the most interesting in his opinion.

That is our dream, to computers ‘real’ so cheap that everyone can have one

Here came a singular detail: while last year the creator of these plates highlighted projects like Pi in the Sky, this time his idea went beyond the maker community. In fact, he confessed that for him the most important of the past year had been offering a Raspberry Pi 2 more powerful and with more memory that people could use to order as a PC input range.

That is our dream, to computers ‘real’ so cheap that everyone can have one,” explained Upton, who made clear his ambition for the future of these devices: the turn in enough solvent solutions to Give classic desktop experience wherever needed. We already evaluators that ability and we reached a clear conclusion: work with a Raspberry Pi 2 like a PC is possible, of course, but doing it at home is not so.

It is still early to talk about Ubuntu and Windows 10

When Raspberry Pi 2 launched last year did so with support from Canonical and Microsoft, which quickly took advantage to launch cut editions of his operating systems order to be able to use these mini PCs. In fact neither Ubuntu Snappy nor Windows 10 IoT Core given for many frills: neither offered a desk to use, and editions were intended for embedded devices.

Upton acknowledged that although “we have seen some developed for both platforms interesting projects” remains soon. Still he showed very optimistic it will be possible to see out of that joint work with both platforms, and is particularly curiousto see if the projects that people have developed in them come to make the transition to commercial designs.”

Upton not want inequalities, “We cannot afford to get just a middle-class kids

Which itself he was particularly pleased about was how I achieved in the field of education for which he asked. The Raspberry Pi born as an educational project and in his words the results are evident “at least in the UK“. There, we explained Upton, “the pace of applications to study computer science at Cambridge -our originally referred has increased above the levels we saw during the dotcom bubble, which is a real validation of our efforts.”

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The head of these devices also expected “to replicate that success abroad, and also ensure that we achieve our objectives in terms of diversity: we cannot afford to get just a middle-class kids.”

What does the future of the Raspberry Pi? Eben Upton could not give us keys, but one of the objectives was a light one, as he noted, “scaling up production of the RPI Zero so that they are as available as other products Raspberry Pi.” Hopefully it will not take long to achieve.

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