07/06/2026
Why a UK physicist built the Raspberry Pi
1. Eben Upton built it because UK CS applicants dropped 80% from the 1990s to the 2000s
2. The goal: a $35 computer kids could break without their parents losing it
3. Launch day in February 2012 crashed both supplier websites within minutes
4. Over 60 million P*s have shipped since — more than the Commodore 64
The Raspberry Pi exists because UK schools stopped teaching code. One Cambridge engineer fixed that. ⤴️