{"id":18420,"date":"2018-03-01T06:30:40","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18420"},"modified":"2018-03-01T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T05:30:40","slug":"happy-6th-birthday-to-the-raspberry-pi-a-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18420","title":{"rendered":"Happy 6th Birthday to the Raspberry Pi &#8211; a retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>5.30am on 1st March&#8230; closest I could get to the non-existent leap-day this year \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18421\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?w=1698&amp;ssl=1 1698w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/birthday_cake.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been 6 years since the Raspberry Pi first went on sale. Since 2012, many millions of the family of boards have been sold. We&#8217;ve seen a lot of change in that time in terms of both the Pi&#8217;s form factor and power and also a change in the Foundation&#8217;s mission from focusing on getting more kids into programming and electronics to a more general move towards getting &#8220;digital making&#8221; into the hands of everyone.<\/p>\n<p>The Pi has gone from an early computer-on-a-stick:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/on-a-stick.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18422\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/on-a-stick.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/on-a-stick.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/on-a-stick.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/on-a-stick.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/on-a-stick.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>all the way to the powerful Raspberry Pi 3:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18423\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=560%2C385&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?w=1571&amp;ssl=1 1571w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=768%2C528&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=1024%2C704&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=560%2C385&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=260%2C179&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?resize=160%2C110&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pi3.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>via the cheap-as-a-very-cheap-thing Pi Zero and Zero-W:<\/p>\n<p><a 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pizero.jpg?resize=260%2C160&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pizero.jpg?resize=160%2C98&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pizero.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/pizero.jpg?w=1680&amp;ssl=1 1680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;becoming, in the case of the original Zero,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/magpi\/issues\/40\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the first computer to be given away on the front of a magazine in December 2015<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>I received my first Pi in July 2012 and since then I&#8217;ve learned about electronics, soldering, Python programming, making and, just along the way, a whole lot about <a href=\"http:\/\/camjam.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">event management<\/a>\u00a0through my work with <a href=\"http:\/\/camjam.me\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CamJam<\/a> and the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend. It&#8217;s been quite a journey. However, the most valuable and most important aspect of the Pi which I&#8217;ve experienced is the community. I&#8217;ve made a lot of friends along the way, both virtual and in-person, which was an amazing thing for me, and for that I&#8217;m very grateful!<\/p>\n<p>Where will Raspberry Pi go from here? Who knows? I&#8217;m sure there are more iterations of the board in the pipeline and I still believe that the Foundation has a long way to go in both it&#8217;s original mission and the newer idea of &#8220;digital making&#8221; and I&#8217;m still very much looking forward to being part of that mission, although perhaps in a different way (5 years of organising events is rather a long time!). No-one can tell when the future will take us. For now, I&#8217;ve got <a href=\"https:\/\/piwars.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pi Wars<\/a>\u00a0to think about and also the small matter of the next Jam, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/potton-pi-pints-raspberry-jam-3rd-march-tickets-41944420892\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Potton Pi and Pints this weekend<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>As always, if you fancy getting in contact, leave a comment on the blog post or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=610\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact me through the form<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/happy-birthday-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read what Eben Upton, CEO of Raspberry Pi Trading, had to say about the birthday and the evolution of the Pi here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5.30am on 1st March&#8230; closest I could get to the non-existent leap-day this year \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s been 6 years since the Raspberry Pi first went on sale. 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We&#8217;ve&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18420\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,35,391,42],"tags":[221,645],"class_list":["post-18420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","category-outreach","category-personal","category-raspberry-pi","tag-history","tag-retrospective"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Happy 6th Birthday to the Raspberry Pi - a retrospective - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=18420\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Happy 6th Birthday to the Raspberry Pi - a retrospective - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"5.30am on 1st March&#8230; closest I could get to the non-existent leap-day this year \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s been 6 years since the Raspberry Pi first went on sale. 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