The Raspberry Pi Foundation started by a handful of volunteers in 2012 when they released the original Raspberry Pi 256MB Model B without knowing what to expect. In a short four-year period they have grown to over sixty full-time employees and have shipped over eight million units to-date. Raspberry Pi has achieved new heights by being shipped to the International Space Station for research and by being an affordable computing platforms used by teachers throughout the world. "It has become the all-time best-selling computer in the UK".

Raspberry Pi 3 - A credit card sized PC that only costs $35 - Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation

Raspberry Pi Foundation is charity organization that pushes for a digital revolution with a mission to inspire kids to learn by creating computer-powered objects. The foundation also helps teachers learn computing skills through free training and readily available tutorials & example code for creating cool things such as music.

Raspberry Pi in educations - Image: Raspberry Pi Foundation

In celebration of their 4th year anniversary, the foundation has released Raspberry Pi 3 with the same price tag of $35 USD. The 3rd revision features a 1.2GHz 64-bit quad-core ARM CPU with integrated Bluetooth 4.1 and 802.11n wireless LAN chipsets. The ARM Cortex-A53 CPU along with other architectural enhancements making it the fastest Raspberry Pi to-date. The 3rd revision is reportedly about 50-60% times faster than its predecessor Raspberry Pi 2 and about 10 times faster then the original Raspberry PI.

Raspberry Pi - Various Usage

Raspberry Pi 3 is now available via many online resellers. At this time, you should use a recent 32-bit NOOBS or Raspbian image from their downloads page with a promise of a switch to a 64-bit version only if further investigation proves that there is indeed some value in moving to 64-bit mode.