The computer's miniature frame is crowded with two USB
ports, an SD card slot, an Ethernet connection and microchip in the middle --
all powered by a universal USB mobile charger.
Not only is it the world's smallest personal computer but,
perhaps most importantly of all, at just $25 the RPi is also the world's
cheapest. A cheap, easily-programmable,
open-source piece of hardware that would allow them to let their imaginations
run wild.
With its rough-around-the-edges aesthetic, set a sales
target of 10,000 units within his lifetime.
But when the RPi launched in February of this year, demand far outran
supply, and all 10,000 sold out immediately.
Now, far exceeding its inventor's original estimates, the RPi is set to
sell as a million units within its first year of availability.