Awesome Video!

Agreed. Nice Job RPG.

Excellent encapsulation indeed.

When it got to the pix of kids and their smiling faces near the end, my actual thoughts were “this is going to make Liz & Eben cry”.. It’s great to see all the projects by those of us reliving our 8-bit micro days, but enthusing kids is of course what it’s all about.

A triumph of video editing that shows how much the Pi has affected people. Best thing is seeing all the kids get stuck in with programming. Great job Matt!

Well done! Like the video.

However, although the device is on the market for nearly 2 years now, Liz and Eben are working on it for much longer. So for them, it’s more like 4 years of “Life of Pi” (with apologies to Monty Python ;) )

I didn’t have to cry, but then, it’s not my life :P

Matt is a truly inspirational character and a great role model for other young people. I first met him a few Cambridge Raspberry Jams ago, showing off a Raspberry Pi-controlled traintrack. He gave a fantastic opening keynote at the last Cambridge Jam which clearly resonated with the young people there (and triggered many adorable questions from the very young viewers). Plus he’s been running a series of successful workshops with the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge as well as continuing to produce more videos for his excellent Youtube channel.

It’s also awfully nice of Penguin Cafe Ltd. for allowing you to use their recording of Perpetuum Mobile, wonderful to see some Copyright sanity. A DRM-free MP3 of the recording can be purchased here http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B008ZUKMBE/

PS: it’s a good thing Matt put this 2nd anniversary video out early as on Feb 28th everyone is obviously going to be preoccupied with celebrating *my* birthday…

Is it too late for the Oscars.?
Best short starring the little computer (and friends) that could..

I remember the Quake 3 video, it’s what made me want to get a pi!

I still haven’t run Open Arean or Q3 on a pi yet, mine tend to end up running Raspbmc, it’s just darn useful. I really, really want to buy a keyboard case mod ala ben heck. Pimoroni, please make one! :P

Wow! Thanks for all of your kind words! I heard that piece of music and I couldn’t think of anything more suitable. It did take me a ridiculously long time to compile and edit – but it was the least I could do ;-)

Looking forward to visiting the Foundation next week… And I am never going to let Eben and Liz forget that I made them cry!

Here is to the future of Pi!

Matt
The Raspberry Pi Guy

Looking forward to watching the video (when I have access).

Just to pile on the tears here, but there are 100s if not 1000s of places where kids are being introduced to computing and programming just because of this little computer.

Kids just love to understand how things work, the more complex and magical it is, the more they want to see what makes it tick. In the right hands, it is such a powerful tool.

Excellent work Matt :)

As someone who has sat and watched it just made me smile a very wide smile.
Well done and thanks.
Frank

Very well done to Matt and the foundation! Love that music also… perfect choice.

It is crazy to think of all the awesome things that wouldn’t exist in the world without your little computer.

Looking forward to seeing the 3rd year video already :-)

P.S. it’s lucky that the video only lasted 4 and a half minutes. A minute longer and I think it might have had me too!

Good work Raspberry Pi Guy

GREAT work Raspberry Pi Team !!

(and, remember it’s not just the little cherubs with smiling faces, it’s also the ageing baldies – like me – who have smiling faces too)

The gizmos and tech didn’t make me cry but the kids did. It’s working. What you and Eben and everybody at Raspberry Pi wanted to do is working. Look at those kids. And they are dragging along some of us old guys as well.

Us == Liz and Eben?

I’d love to see Eben in tears over a video :)

Yaay! Great video! Delighted my time-lapses made it into 1:02 and 1:06 :)

That just brightened my day! I downloaded it to watch each morning to remind me great things are possible!

To all those involved “Great Job”!!

Nice job, Matt! Now that your fame is spreading far and wide, we can’t wait for when you’ll be arriving in SillyCon Valley in your “private” jet, giving Liz and Eben a lift on the way, perhaps to Maker Faire San Francisco in May! :lol:

Now, get back to work! ;)

Excellent video.

Fantastic video! Next time someone asks me what a Pi is, or why get a Pi when you have a PC, all I will need to do is show them this!

Excellent Video!

For some reason the embedded video didn’t work but it is available on The Raspberry Pi Guy’s channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdCyYDogOc

Of course now I’m contemplating the next 2 years… :-)

Super Video!
Will look forward to what the next 2 years will present.

I still remember the pre-release buzz about “the new microcomputer about the size of a credit card.” The PI Foundation estimating sales in the thousands while millions of nerds gathered outside the wall, ready to storm the gates… You guys give as good as you got!

Applause.

Keep on rocking folks !

Lets make a blast for the second anniversary.

Great video.

Where can I find the original clips of:- Pi apparently built into a keyboard console at 0.08 – and – Pi apparently controlling a model train at 1.17? I didn’t see these originally.

Well done Matt. Another excellent video!

A lovely birthday present to the Raspberry Pi – well done, Matt! :-)

That balancing robot is really neat! Yet another thing to put on the wish list.

I wish I went out through the window. :) Thanks for a great overview of an amazing and revolutionary computer.

Thanks for this Matt, it’s quite brilliant and cheered me up after a ridiculous five hour journey back from BETT :)

Thanks for reminding us quite how extraordinary the last two years have been — I’m proud to have been part of it.