Raspberry Pi to be mass produced by Sony in the UK

The affordable naked PC on a motherboard is coming to the UK in hefty supply at last

Nearly everyone who hearsRaspberry Piwill immediately think affordable, compact, easily modded PC. Unless you’re an OAP who may start weighing up eating tasty pie with denture washing efforts.

For those in the tech camp that appreciate the £22 computer, the news that Sony has just signed a deal to mass-produce Raspberry Pi will be good. There will be 300,000 units made initially – we’d say it’ll be cheaper as a result but it’s hard to shave much off that price.

So if you’re a budding computer engineer, a programmer with a passion for originality, or just a n00b looking to try your hand at mucking about with open-source software and hardware, your time has come.

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Stuff Office Cat’s Diary – 06/09/12

Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website. 

Our Editor-in-Chief is a regular at tech shows such as CES in Las Vegas, IFA in Berlin and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona as well as at other launches and events. He has been a CES Innovation Awards judge.

Dan is completely platform agnostic and very at home using and writing about Windows, macOS, Android and iOS/iPadOS plus lots and lots of gadgets including audio and smart home gear, laptops and smartphones.

He’s also been interviewed and quoted in a wide variety of places including The Sun, BBC World Service, BBC News Online, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio 4, Sky News Radio and BBC Local Radio.

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