Raspberry Pi Wins UK's Top Engineering Award (bbc.com)

An anonymous reader shares a BBC report: The team behind the device was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering's MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London last night. The tiny computer launched in 2012. Its designers hoped to introduce children to coding and had modest ambitions. They beat two other finalists, cyber-security company Darktrace and radiotherapy pioneers Vision RT, to win the prize. Previous winners of the innovation award, which has been run since 1969, include the creators of the CT (computerised tomography) scanner; the designers of the Severn Bridge; and the team at Microsoft in Cambridge that developed the Kinect motion sensor.

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Well deserved-

[WolfgangVL]

It's pretty great when a platform comes along and snares giant subsets of people across multiple disciplines.

The Pi has earned its place in pop culture, industry, creativity, criminal and business enterprise, education... the list goes on and on.

I've personally introduced a handful of very young people to the pi as both a robotics, and IoT platform, and watched them sprout from typical minecraft zombie, to budding bot-and-automation-expert in training.

And that price point? Pretty Amazing.

Kudos to the Raspberry Pie Foundation, they really are changing the world.

I just wish shipping and availability was not such an issue, but it's fine 80% of the time, and suppliers always make it right.... with time.