Q: Two years, what have you seen which berry sent a change in education, and how do you measure success?
A: Eben1 This is indeed a meaningful problem. If you ask me to measure success two years ago, I may say that it is the number of shipments. I may say that the product is commercially successful, and from the long-term perspective, how much is the number of children entering the university study computer. And in this point, I think we have achieved success. But what is interest, we think we have successfully succeeded from another aspect, that is, we think that it takes a long time to make everyone truly master it, this also determines the process of the Raspberry Piece into the education system - not extended to Each class has an extent of each class, but it can be determined that the Raspberry Pist has been popular in many advanced schools in the United States and the United Kingdom. They have truly start using it.
Q: Why is this? Is it because of its price or ease of use?
A: I think there is potential demand here. Let us start at the beginning that we think we should create demand for it, especially the needs of children. In my opinion, this is a calculation mistake. There is a large new need to be like this in the love community. I think we have seen this before publishing. Eben2 we started to participate in the Maker Faire (Maker Faire, the world's largest DIY party, is a celebration to promote the cultural culture. It is a stage showing innovation and creation. We participated in the maker faire held in New York in 2011, interesting there, there are many children, young children, doing Arduino gadgets. These fortunately, some supported children have given us some inspiration, and some projects have begun to work, which may be the goal we are working hard. What surprised us is that we are not from zero market demand, but in fact, there is a large group of people who have been looking for gadgets, in which the producer community accounts for a large part.
Q: What new software will there be any new software this year?
A: We have been continuing underlying, performance improvement. You know: It is 1% here, there is 5%, and it is 1%. That is the accumulation of this, which has promoted the performance improvement of the entire platform. Let us think that interesting is if you are going to focus on a matter, then you can improve. I am planning to put all the energy for a few months to make performance improvement, but now we can still see where you can improve. This will be a continuous process. It will continue later. We also found some software that optimized software. We have a web browser. Eben3 It is the transplant version of the EpiHany web browser in the delegation. It is constantly making better, especially for HTML5 video support. If you want to say which one is slower than I expected, it is to change the desktop environment based on Wayland (Wayland-based) based on X (X-based). We are still in progress. It is now a project we focus on. The other is Scratch. We are still determined to make a better thing than scratch. But for your gains you can make in elementary school, it has been working very well on the gap.
Q: What changes are there in hardware so far?
A: We have already got notified that the long-awaited Raspberry Pista is going to be completed. We have got some very good LCD demonstration, through a wide VGA capacitive touch screen through a 10-point projected, a wide VGA capacitance. We already have some prototypes that make us very happy and we have solved all problems.
Q: When will they perform mass production?
A: We expect to mass production in the summer. It will be a very cost-effective product. We hope it is a touch screen with reasonable resolution, and the price is controlled within $ 70.
Q: Is there anything else?
A: Other, um, there is no Raspberry 2 [laugh]. I think we are still following us to make the Raspberry Piece 1 to maintain a few years in the market before we make the Raspberry 2. We have sold 2.5 million Raspberry. If we jump to the Raspberry Part 2, then we have set 2.5 million users. One of the reasons why our success is not like a magpie, it will run after six months of the new thing. We have to keep this dependence on the community. Interesting is how the community continues to develop more additional products. Eben4 I have been thinking about all that I have seen can be attached to the Raspberry Pie and some ideas are very novel, and some items we have never thought of in Kickstarter.
Q: What is the trend you see by the Raspberry Party for use in non-education?
A: We can see many industrial grade design. As a platform that is more stable and more focused, we have seen more and more people think about: "Wait, there is a Raspberry Party, why do I want to use a few hundred pieces of a portable computer ( ? "What about it?" We see more and more such examples. There is already a lot of reliable software that can be used by these people.
We started in a hobby community and the adult amateur hobby community is very stable. Then start dividing 3 branches. The first branch is an industry. The second is the field of education, of course, this is our original purpose. A good point is that we have the foundation of farewors and players who are familiar with equipment. The existence of these people is a huge wealth for children. This improves the opportunities that children can ask nearby players. The third branch is consumer products because the Raspberry Pist can run Xbox Media Center. Some people use the Raspberry Pis as a loyal to God's consumer product (Using PI As an Honest to God Consumer Product). We believe that there are about 500,000 people in the north to use the Raspberry Pie as an IPTV set-top box. We now have the largest platform for non-PC running XBMC. Obviously Windows PC is still the biggest, but we are second only to its platform, this is surprised. But this is also one of the goals of the Raspberry Pie, which will always bring you fun.
Q: Is there a favorite project inside?
A: I wrote in the blog on the blog in a few weeks ago about the success of the Raspberry Party in Africa. It is extremely extremely popular in the development of the world, it is not a charity. Eben5 When we promote Africa, we regard it as a business opportunity, not a charity. The results prove that when you provide cheap computing capacity, people will create business opportunities on it. This made me very surprised in the past six months. This exotic, especially in some central cities, how familiar technology scenes. Our promotion runs through the field of players and hackers, and when you enter this door, you can go to any place to go (meaning that you can see the very popular scene of the Raspberry Pist). You can go to the Gulf area. You can go to London to Cambridge. Which of these places seem to be similar.
Q: How do you think of the next two years, in the next decade?
A: Of course, in the next 10 years we will release the Raspberry Part 2 [laugh]. But there are still many places that can change. But industrial things are very important to me. There is a huge potential in the form of crowdfunding-plus-pi. You got the potential of 3 samples that couldn't be so close to the people in history. This can be exposed to the technical field with a competitive price. This has a huge potential to liberate business, liberate creativity, and liberate access to people's opportunities (UNLOCK Access To Opportunity of People). And from Kickstarter and Indiegogo platform, funds, before, if you are a child, it is hard to get a investment. You can use the Raspberry Pie to get into contact with the technical field, where you can purchase millions of chips to get a very cheap price. Of course, this is an old trend, but you have an internet that allows you to contact information in a more close man. So now you have these three things, information, technology and investment, I think the Raspberry School is very suitable for this exciting trend.
Q: How did its name come?
A: Raspberry comes from a computer company named after fruit. There is a few such companies. In the UK, we have apricot (apricot), Tangerine, or even acorn (acorn), as well as a fruit. So now there are some companies named after fruit. Raspberry is one of the fruits that have not been taken yet, and it is also the most rude fruit because it makes people think of blowing raspberries (Blowing a raspberry, putting the tongue in the middle of the two lips, noise, translation). PI represents Python. I only want to run Python when I start designing the Raspberry. Instead of letting it run Linux. But we abbreviate it to "Pi" to make LOGO better. I don't really like this name in the beginning, but I will fall in love with it.
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