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    Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit

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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      https://channel9.msdn.com/coding4fun/blog/Ten-Million-Pis

      When we started Raspberry Pi, we had a simple goal: to increase the number of people applying to study Computer Science at Cambridge. By putting cheap, programmable computers in the hands of the right young people, we hoped that we might revive some of the sense of excitement about computing that we had back in the 1980s with our Sinclair Spectrums, BBC Micros and Commodore 64s.

      At the time, we thought our lifetime volumes might amount to ten thousand units – if we were lucky. There was was no expectation that adults would use Raspberry Pi, no expectation of commercial success, and certainly no expectation that four years later we would be manufacturing tens of thousands of units a day in the UK, and exporting Raspberry Pi all over the world.

      With this in mind, you can imagine how strange it feels to be able to announce that over the last four and a half years we’ve sold a grand total of ten million Raspberry Pis. Thanks to you, we’ve beaten our wildest dreams by three orders of magnitude, and we’re only just getting started. Every time you buy a Raspberry Pi, you help fund both our ongoing engineering work, and our educational outreach programs, including Code Club and Picademy.

      Very early on, we decided that we would offer the bare-bones Raspberry Pi board without accessories: that way, cost-conscious customers get the lowest possible price, provided they can beg or borrow USB peripherals, a power supply and an SD card. Over the years, Raspberry Pi distributors have built on this, producing some fantastic bundles for people who would rather get everything they need from a single source.

      To celebrate the ten millionth Raspberry Pi, for the first time we’ve put together our own idea of what the perfect bundle would look like, creating the official Raspberry Pi Starter Kit.

      raspberry pi kit

      Inside the minimalist white box (like the official case, another beautiful Kinneir Dufort design), you’ll find:

      A Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
      An 8GB NOOBS SD card
      An official case
      An official 2.5A multi-region power supply
      An official 1m HDMI cable
      An optical mouse and a keyboard with high-quality scissor-switch action
      A copy of Adventures in Raspberry Pi Foundation Edition
      
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      • gjacobseG
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        That is awesome. Two were given away as part of MangoCon.

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        • mlnewsM
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          @gjacobse said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

          That is awesome. Two were given away as part of MangoCon.

          Yes, by Starwind. Tagging @KOOLER for that although it was Max who was here. Maybe Kooler can remind Max to get an ML account created once he has arrived back home.

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          • dafyreD
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            @mlnews said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

            @gjacobse said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

            That is awesome. Two were given away as part of MangoCon.

            Yes, by Starwind. Tagging @KOOLER for that although it was Max who was here. Maybe Kooler can remind Max to get an ML account created once he has arrived back home.

            Or somebody sit him down and make him do it before he leaves the MangoCon, lol.

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            • bbigfordB
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              That's awesome. One of my favorite cases is still the Ninja Coupe. Only as much case as needed. Super low profile and very slick looking.

              0_1474042634615_ninja.png

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              • scottalanmillerS
                scottalanmiller @dafyre
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                @dafyre said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

                @mlnews said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

                @gjacobse said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

                That is awesome. Two were given away as part of MangoCon.

                Yes, by Starwind. Tagging @KOOLER for that although it was Max who was here. Maybe Kooler can remind Max to get an ML account created once he has arrived back home.

                Or somebody sit him down and make him do it before he leaves the MangoCon, lol.

                Max flew out yesterday afternoon.

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                • scottalanmillerS
                  scottalanmiller @bbigford
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                  @BBigford said in Raspberry Pi Ships 10,000,000th Unit:

                  That's awesome. One of my favorite cases is still the Ninja Coupe. Only as much case as needed. Super low profile and very slick looking.

                  0_1474042634615_ninja.png

                  Nice, I like that.

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