“… we’ll be opening a bottle of something fizzy tonight!”
Irn Bru?

And “All of the Pis would weigh the same as 169,173 Nokia 3310s …”
What’s that in blue whales?

That would only be 12.4% of a blue whale according to the FAQ’s (45 grams per pi) and Wikipedia (200 short tons per blue whale).

That’s not bad stats is it.

My company was looking after RS’s network monitoring at the time it was release. For the first 10 to 30 minutes we thought we were looking at a DOS attack. Then we relised it was just some guys who had release a credit card size PC causing all the fuss. Soon any one not working on the problem became part of the problem, as they tried to order one. :)

My second Pi should arrive today. wife has become a bit attached to he first which is getting used a s a media server. need another one to play with.

Congratulations!
No surprise here though, I said this a year ago! (http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=2634)

“I strongly believe there is a place for 1 million+ RasPi devices on the market”

Time files by the way, it it hard to believe it has been a year already…

Time for my favourite word: Awesome :)

The Raspberry Pi nails it on all fronts: education, nostalgia (reminds me of my Amiga 1200… and my Speccy 48+).

It’s full of “ility” as well: learnability, usability, practicality, funability.

~1 million units is a fantastic achievement to-day. And let us remember: it’s not like 1 million and that’s that, job done. It’s 1 million and NOW we see where it goes from here…

=C

Love it.

Excellent. Now let’s bring on the Rev A’s and watch them sell 3 million!

This little guy is way too useful. Look at http://bd.hauke-lampe.de/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-stratum-1-ntp-server-with-pps-accurate-timekeeping-at-low-cost.html or http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Raspberry-Pi-NTP.html , for example :)

I seriously doubt that RS has sold that many. I ordered two pi’s around june/july and all subsequent ones were ordered from Farnell because I was still waiting for the RS one. From the order number schedule published they took care of the backlog at about twice the pace that Farnell had been selling all along for months already.
From the order numbers I cannot accurately guess how many ‘PIs they sold, as one order number may be fore more than one ‘pi, but on the other hand, in the months in between some people may have cancelled their order….

Brilliant,

There have been some fascinating things done with this little board. Now, let’s see what the kids do with them. I’ve just heard that a really nice guy has donated a classroom’s worth of RPis to my son’s school. I can’t wait to see what they do with them.

Publicity and success well deserved. Brilliant job, guys. Keep up the great work!

Bravo! I have one of them deployed to support my 24/7 ham radio DSTAR hotspot. Works like a charm!

Best regards from Seattle.

Jonathan, KK7PW

I love Raspberry Pi, I bought mine at alllied.com !

I love Raspberry Pi, I bought mine at allied.com !

Well done !! All credit to Eben, Liz, all at the foundation, and everyone who has made the concept, design, manufacture and delivery a huge success.
You all deserve a pat on the back for the enormous positive impact this will have on lessons in schools an on capturing the imagination of children and adults alike. When I see some of the projects and applications this humble device has become part of it’s truly AWESOME

Grats

Are Farnell and RS managing to hold stock or does stock disappear instantly? Are they sure the current production rate is not causing a bottleneck? Looking around the place, it appears that ‘developers’ are buying multiple units and the target audience has not really started to bulk buy yet. The rate of requests for the Raspberry Pi will probably spike again with the educational release and mass use within ICT curricula.

Well done getting the Raspberry Pi board into production. It is something several of us had hoped would exist, which is the reason it is selling so well ;-) (Ah, if only I had a super cheap LINUX box with I/O ports…)

Best regards,

Will

Can you ask around at Broadcom to find and old timer who knows how many BBC Micros and Archimedes were sold? Wikipedia says >1.5 million BBCs. The RPi will eclipse that soon and I suppose it has already sold more than the Arcs?

Congrats! You deserve it, can’t wait to have my own raspberry
Keep up the good job.

Congratulations! Producing, much less selling, half a million of anything is nothing to sneeze at (especially if it’s powered up and not in a case :) ) and the total number probably being closer to a million already is even more impressive.

While there has been a strong, passionate customer base made up primarily of self-motivated (and often experienced) individuals, it’s not clear how the Model A will fare since it is aimed more at the originally-intended audience of primary/secondary school students. The feedback I’m getting from educators, who aren’t experienced with technology at the level needed to successfully deploy a lot of Pi units through entire school systems, is that they’re not ready to leap because there is no unified package of everything needed (yet?). They don’t have time to perform the integration themselves, and that effort has to be repeated by each educator, or at best by each school or district, which is grossly ineffective.

Educational institutions (or any other bureaucracy) don’t buy things in bulk the way that we buy things as tech-savvy individuals (big-box discount places like Costco, Sam’s Club, BJ’s, etc., notwithstanding). Choice is actually considered a bad thing because it means more limited opportunities for volume discounts, and there is a huge amount of choice just in terms of peripherals required for the Pi (power supplies, keyboards, pointing devices, cables, displays, cases, etc.). Then, there are the optional peripherals such as the GertBoard, Adafruit interfaces, Arduino boards, etc., which each tend to be more expensive than the Pi board.

Just as important are the education-oriented training materials for teachers who don’t feel comfortable being unprepared for the plethora of inevitable student questions that they can’t answer immediately. Less adventurous educators want more predictable structure, even though there is a lot of evidence (and common sense) that getting students curious enough to answer their own questions is a key to establishing a lifetime of learning.

If they aren’t lucky enough to have a local expert, many teachers are certainly not going to want to rely on posting questions to forums and mostly getting replies that are way over their heads in geek-speak. There just aren’t enough people with the right tech experience who can also communicate effectively with educators in their parlance.

Institutions only deal with vendors who can (or at least purport to) provide end-to-end “solutions”, and they have historically just been fronts for Microsoft, Apple, and their business partners, so they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. While it may not seem logical, even a million Pi units is a drop in the bucket to these vendors – there are billions of children of school age around the world, although “only” a few hundred million of them are in what most of us would recognize as schools.

It’s going to take time for businesses to figure out how to put together all of the parts in well-integrated packages and at least cover all of their costs, if they’re willing to constrain their profits. That may only be possible if non-profit entities are able to take up the challenge, but their budgets typically don’t allow for quick growth and widespread coverage precisely because of their inability to raise capital, which typically requires a profit being generated. Chicken, meet Egg. Egg, meet Chicken.

Until there is one, or at most no more than a few, packages of everything needed to get things up and running in classrooms (including the teacher-oriented materials), the fielding of the Pi by the millions in schools is probably not going to happen over the next year, or so. I will be extremely happy to be proven wrong, but if not, I hope that this problem is being addressed.

A one…

A two-Hoo…

A tha-Three… CRUNCH!!!

The world may never know… Congratulations. :)

Sorry Liz you only get a birthday every 4 years since you used Feb 29th LOL

I can’t wait for 8,000,000,000. By that time, you could almost guarantee that every human on earth has one, and may be able to learn computer programming. If you sold them at the ratio of Mod As and Mod Bs you’re expecting, how much money would that take? If the selling rate doesn’t slow down before then, how long would it take for you to reach that number?

I’ve just gotten my third one. My first one is now a media server at my parents house. They loved it so much they wanted me to get a second for their bedroom and now I’ve got a third for myself to tinker with. At the rate things are going I’ll probably have 3 or 4 more by the end of the year for projects :)

Hello.
Who is behind http://www.raspberrypi.com.tw/ ?
I think it is backed up by element14, not sure.

Is Raspberry Pi Foundation related to it?

Congratulation !
That’s one of those project where you’re proud when to say “yeh, I ordered mine at the very beginning … yeh yeh you can see my posts on the forum at the very beginning” :))
Anyway, thanks a lot for the Pi ! it’s one nice piece of thinkering, educationnal, linux learning, etc.

Would be nice to make a real big supercomputer out of all these raspberries.

Well done!

It takes me back to those ZX80 and ZX81 days in the 1980’s

Yeah, good luck with getting stats from RS… If they’re nearly as fast as delivering the product, try again in 3 months.
Seriously though, congratulations. A million is a serious number. It’s a success well deserved. I’m constantly amazed at what this little thing can do. You should celebrate accordingly!

One million raspberry pi end to end is 137+ 1 EAR times longer than the Harvard Bridge.
Or 49947.114 SMOOTS!

Any one want to work it out in Potrzebie, developed by Donald Knuth

Great figures :)

Although, I have to ask. What percentage of those ever actually made it into schools?

Why the uncertainty about numbers?

Can’t you just count the royalties the Foundation has received from sales?

Congrats.. i’ve buyed myself like 5 for a friends in el salvador. I have one in productión for surveliance in my home but i pretende using it for teaching.

Thank you guys for your effort.

Please skip the ARMv7 architecture and jump straight to ARMv8 with a Cortex A53-based (maybe dual core?) Raspberry Pi 2.0.

No need to make developers support 3 different architectures (ARMv6, ARMv7 and ARMv8).

Also introduce a GPU that supports OpenGL ES 3.0 in the next version.

How can I order one in Serbia? :( Noone ships here…