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I think you are wildly overestimating the benefits of giving children raspberry pis.

• Gigachad 4y ago
  There are so many other SBCs as well. Arguably the arduino products are more useful to kids anyway. Much easier to use, you just plug them in to the computer you are already familiar with and can start running code on them. No need to set up SSH or a second monitor/kb
  • bombolo 4y ago
    But no easy wifi
    • Gigachad 4y ago
      ESP32 has wifi and bluetooth and costs hardly anything.
• andrewstuart 4y ago
  An uplifting quote from: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/raspberrypi https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/raspberrypi "Raspberry Pi wasn't invented to boost shareholder value or turn its founders into billionaires: it was created as a charity to increase the number and calibre of students applying to study computer science at Cambridge, to give young people access to programmable hardware at a low price, and to equip a new generation" Whereas Raspberry Pi today: "We're selling to industrial buyers."
  • thereisnospork 4y ago
    That was 10 years ago; those then-students are now engineers. This is what success at equipping a new generation looks like - the transition of needing tools to do stuff with[0] and not just play with and learn on. [0]"Industry"
    • monocasa 4y ago
      I mean, most educational tools don't just decide to give up on students when the first cadre age out.
• petsfed 4y ago
  Perhaps, but the Raspberry Pi Foundation was founded on the premise of putting tiny computers in the hands of children and hobbyists. So whatever good may come of selling RPis to Vodafone, it is not the good that Raspberry Pi was founded to provide. This is a GPUs-in-the-hands-of-miners-not-gamers situation, but I think starving the educational community is a bit more venal than starving the gaming community.