The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK educational charity that created the Raspberry Pi, a $35 computer used to teach coding and computing concepts in schools. While the Foundation spends money on educational programs and resources, its trading company earns money through sales of the Raspberry Pi to fund further development. The Raspberry Pi has been very successful, selling over 5 million units and inspiring many educational projects. It has helped bring coding and computer science concepts into UK classrooms in line with new national curriculum requirements.

1. How Raspberry Pi
(an Educational Charity)
funds itself without
rattling a tin
BEN NUTTALL
RASPBERRY PI FOUNDATION

2. Dedication
John Pinner
Organiser of PyConUK

3. Raspberry Pi Foundation

4. Raspberry Pi Foundation
UK Educational Charity based in Cambridge

5. Raspberry Why?

6. A computer (1981)

7. A computer (2010)

8. ICT Lessons

9. Cambridge University Computer Lab

10. Prototypes

11. Raspberry Pi Blog (2011)

12. Get your stickers! £1 for charity

13. Get your stickers! £1 for charity

14. Beta boards on Ebay

15. Raspberry Pi (2012)
700MHz single core CPU
VideoCoreIV 3D GPU
256MB RAM
$35

16. Raspberry Pi Model B Launch
29 February 2012
10, 000 in stock
2 online distributors
Both websites crashed

17. Raspberry Pi Model B Launch
29 February 2012
10, 000 in stock
2 online distributors
Both websites crashed
100, 000 orders on first day

18. Community

19. Awesome projects

20. Awesome projects

21. Awesome projects

22. Awesome projects
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23. Open source software libraries

24. Schools

25. Raspberry Pi Model B (Rev 2)
September 2012
Same CPU/GPU
512MB RAM
$35

26. Made in the UK

27. Sony Pencoed

28. 1 Million Sales in 2012

29. Foundation and Trading Co

30. Foundation and Trading Company
Trading company
● Hires engineers
● Makes money
Foundation
● Hires education dudes
● Spends money

31. Raspberry Pi Model A
February 2013
Same CPU/GPU
256MB RAM
1 USB, no ethernet
$25

32. Google Schools Project

33. Education Team

34. Michael Gove

35. Michael Gove

36. Michael Gove

37. Michael Gove

38. New computing curriculum
“From 5, children will learn to code and program with
algorithms, sequencing, selection and repetition”
“From 11, how to use at least 2 programming languages to
solve computational problems, to design … computational
abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world
problems and physical systems; and how instructions are
saved and executed within a computer system”
- Michael Gove, UK Education Secretary

39. New computing curriculum
“From 5, children will learn to code and program with
algorithms, sequencing, selection and repetition”
“From 11, how to use at least 2 programming languages to
solve computational problems, to design … computational
abstractions that model the state and behaviour of real-world
problems and physical systems; and how instructions are
saved and executed within a computer system”
- Michael Gove, (ex-) UK Education Secretary

40. Michael Gove

41. Investment in retraining ICT teachers
£3M

42. Investment in retraining ICT teachers
£170 per school

43. New website

44. Free Learning Resources

45. Picademy

46. Compute Module Development Kit
April 2014
Prototyping development board
Build a custom Raspberry Pi
$150

47. Compute Module
April 2014
Same spec as Raspberry Pi
Runs same software
More flexible form factor
~$30

48. Raspberry Pi Model B+
July 2014
Same CPU/GPU
512MB RAM
More USB, GPIO, etc.
$35

49. Raspberry Pi Model A+
November 2014
Same CPU/GPU
256MB RAM
Smaller profile
$20

50. 4 Million Sales

51. Education Fund

52. Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
February 2015
Quad core CPU
1GB RAM
Manufacturing 20,000 per day
6x speed of previous model
Fully compatible with Pi 1

53. Raspberry Pi 2 Model B
February 2015
Quad core CPU
1GB RAM
Manufacturing 20,000 per day
6x speed of previous model
Fully compatible with Pi 1
Sold 500, 000 within 2 weeks

54. 5 Million Sales

55. No deprecation

56. Weather station project

57. Astro Pi

58. Creative Technologists

59. Picademy <insert country>

60. BETT

61. BETT

62. Take a card!
Ben Nuttall
Development & Outreach
Raspberry Pi Education Team
@ben_nuttall
ben@raspberrypi.org
github.com/bennuttall