The bare-bone credit card-sized Raspberry Pi is still going on strong with sales in tune of 3.8 million units till date – a number that is definitely impressive considering that its creators had only envisaged sales of just 10,000 during its lifetime.
Raspberry Pi Foundation revealed the sales figure in reply to a query over Twitter. “As of today, it looks like 3.8 million – that’s an *awful lot of computers*”, the Foundation tweeted last Saturday.
The humble open source chunk of electronics has create a new wave of excitement in DIY electronics and that too at a new level considering that it is a whole computer that allows users to get just about anything done as far as computing tasks go.
Within the first year itself, the Raspberry Pi sold a whopping 1 million units and with months to go before its second birthday, the Foundation had managed to sell well over 2 million units.
Just a few months back, the Foundation updated the model B of Pi and named it B+. Though it came with the same price tag, the board had been updated with improved hardware, while the design had been tweaked to support richer use-cases including more USB ports.
