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Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing

Posted by Soulskill on from the bake-until-golden-brown dept.

alecclews writes "After weeks of waiting, the Raspberry Pi foundation, who are creating a $25 computer to bootstrap computing education, has flipped the switch on manufacturing. They had wanted to build the board in the UK but it turns out to be uneconomic."

2 of 374 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Excellent news! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, they certainly don't have to. The point is that the people claiming they will are full of shit since this will never been heard of outside of basement dwellers.

  2. Re:Worrying state of affairs by roc97007 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Yeah, because it's so much better to pull a nice union wage right up to the point where the company shuts its doors.

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