This year, Eben’s participating in Movember, and growing a moustache to raise funds for men’s mental health, in memory of our very dear friend Chris “Oggie” Lightfoot , who died in 2007. He’s been growing the hairs on the lower part of his face out since November 1, and now has enough stubble to shape into a moustache
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Movember 2013: look! Eben can grow hair on at least one part of his head!
Welsh factory makes one millionth Raspberry Pi IDG News Service Both Raspberry Pi manufacturing partners – RS Components and Premier Farnell – have now re-shored all their production of the Raspberry Pi to the Welsh factory, which has now reached the millionth Pi milestone.With the Chinese-made machines, there are
WalesOnline Raspberry Pi mini computer reaches one million milestone at Pencoed Sony plant WalesOnline Claire Doyle, global head of Raspberry Pi at element 14, said: “We are of course delighted to be able to announce the one millionth Raspberry Pi coming off the production line at Sony UK TEC. “In just under a year since we signed the deal with Sony UK …
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1m Raspberry Pi Computers Built in the UK, as Global Sales hit 1.75m The Next Web The one millionth Raspberry Pi computer manufactured in Britain has rolled off the production line. The credit card-sized machine, which costs as little as $25, has become a bit of a cult hit recently for hobbyists and kids who are interested in coding …
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1m Raspberry Pi Computers Built in the UK, as Global Sales hit 1.75m – The Next Web
We’ve reached a bit a landmark. As you’ll know if you’ve been following us since we started documenting what happens when you decide to make a tiny computer for education back in 2011, the first Raspberry Pis were made in China
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1.75 million sold so far – and 1 million made in the UK
A very short, but very important post today (I’d write more, but I have to hop on a plane). As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we’ve been supporting the exam board OCR in their production of Cambridge GCSE Computing , a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) for kids and teachers – and everybody else – which is structured around their highly regarded Computing GCSE.
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OCR MOOC – new materials now available
V3.co.uk Raspberry Pi hits half a million Welsh units V3.co.uk The Raspberry Pi Foundation has confirmed that the 500,000th unit has rolled off the production line at the Sony factory in Wales, underlining the demand for the micro-computer. The organisation is in the process of moving manufacturing from the Far …
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Geeky gadgets Raspberry Pi Mini PC Production Increases In The UK (video) Geeky gadgets The Raspberry Pi Foundation the company responsible for designing and creating the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC, have this week announced that they are now moving more Raspberry Pi production to Sony's Pencoed factory in Wales, UK. Premier … Raspberry Pi manufacturing moves to U.K.
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This piece of news footage is all about how the Raspberry Pi you own is made in the UK. It gives you another really close look at some of the processes in the factory – as well as some crystal-clear video of pick and place, you’ll see some of the ladies on the line doing hand placement of through-hole parts, and learn a bit more about plans for increasing production (even with a million sold in our first year, sales show no sign of slowing down).
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Reuters visits the Raspberry Pi factory
Of course, Model A is not the only new bit of hardware we’re releasing in 2013. JamesH just sent me these pictures of the forthcoming camera board to whet your appetite. This is the final hardware; we’ve been working on tuning (Gert tells me that picture quality is “pretty good” at the moment, but we’re hoping to get it to “bleedin’ marvellous” before we release the hardware), and there is some work to do on the drivers, but everything’s looking pretty peachy for the moment
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Raspberry Pi camera module sneak peak, and Model A unboxing