Can a $35 computer teach children to code?
The Raspberry Pi, a $US35 computer about the size of a credit card, made headlines last week when all of the 10,000 units available for pre-order were snatched up just minutes after they went on sale.
Even after the units had sold out, international interest in the computer was so rabid that the websites of the two retailers authorised to sell it - Premier Farnell and RS Components - crashed under the weight of the traffic.
"We weren't surprised by the enthusiastic reaction," said Eben Upton, executive director of the UK-based Raspberry Pi Foundation. "But we were surprised by the scale of the number of people who were trying to buy them. It was 10 times what we expected."
