Raspberry Pi celebrates 10 million sales by launching an official Starter Kit
Raspberry Pi has been an incredible success. Originally aimed at schools, the credit card sized bare-bones computer has found an appreciative audience outside of the education system, and in just four and a half years sold a whopping 10 million.
I chatted with Liz Upton, Head of Communications at Raspberry Pi Foundation (and wife of the foundation’s Executive Director Eben), when they’d sold their first million devices, and things have certainly moved on a lot since then with the introduction of new models, and the $5 Pi Zero.
Announcing the latest sales milestone, Eben admits "we thought our lifetime volumes might amount to ten thousand units -- if we were lucky". How wrong they were.
To celebrate selling 10 million Raspberry Pis, the Foundation has created an official Raspberry Pi Starter Kit. This is, Eben says, "an unashamedly premium product", and inside the classy white box 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
The Starter Kit is priced at £99+VAT and available to order through the usual resellers -- element14 and RS Components. It’s currently only on sale in the UK, but will be coming to the rest of the world in the next few weeks.