Many happy return to Raspberry Pi as it celebrates its first birthday. To commemorate the occasion, element14 is launching ‘Raspberry Pi Month with a series of initiatives in honour of the success of the microcomputer.
Raspberry Pi made its European debut on in 2012. To celebrate, element14 presented key innovators behind Raspberry Pi, Co-Founder Pete Lomas, and ecosystem developer and PiFace designer Dr Andrew Robinson with the Innovation Award as voted for by the element14 Community at the end of last year.
The success of the Raspberry Pi and the related accessories has taken the industry by storm. The distributor advises, when the Model B board launched in 2012 there were 500,000 hits on the element14 website every 15 minutes with 600 orders, pre-orders or hits on the site every second.
As part of Raspberry Pi month element14 will be asking people to vote for their favourite project using the microcomputer and accessories. ‘MyPi’ has been set up to highlight ten of the top projects that will be promoted via the community and members will be asked to discuss and select their favourite as well as put forward their own outstanding projects.
Throughout March various roadtests of the PiFace and Gertboard will be taking place on the community website and for those new to the accessories a PiFace and Gertboard webinar will take place on 20th March.
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