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The Wall Street Journal: How Google inspired Raspberry Pi’s $5 computer

 

Raspberry Pi has just released the latest credit card-sized computer in order to boost sales and connect to the Internet of Things. Eben Upton, co-founder of the company and a Cambridge Judge Executive MBA alumnus, told how Google chairman Eric Schmidt inspired him to make a cheaper and smaller Raspberry Pi computer for schoolchildren. “We really don’t think we’ll get any cheaper than this. We’ve gone from say, four lattes, to one latte. We’re not going to go below the cost of one latte,” said Eben.

Read the full article [blogs.wsj.com]