Raspberry Pi User Guide
Eben Upton
Gareth Halfacree
Raspberry Pi User
Guide
2nd Edition
Raspberry Pi User
Guide
2nd Edition
Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree
This edition first published 2014
2014 Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree
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For Liz, who made it all possible. Eben
For my father, the enthusiastic past, and my daughter, the exciting future. Gareth
About the Authors Eben Upton is a founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and serves as its Executive
Director. He is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of the Raspberry Pi, and for the
Foundations relationships with its key suppliers and custom- ers. In an earlier life, he founded two successful
mobile games and middleware companies, Ideaworks 3d Ltd. and Podfun Ltd., and held the post of Director of
Studies for Computer Science at St Johns College, Cambridge. He holds a BA, a PhD and an MBA from the
University of Cambridge.
In his day job, Eben works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.
Gareth Halfacree is a freelance technology journalist and the co-author of the Raspberry Pi User Guide alongside
project co-founder Eben Upton. Formerly a system administrator working in the education sector, Gareths passion
for open source projects has followed him from one career to another, and he can often be seen reviewing,
documenting or even contributing to projects including GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, Fritzing and Arduino. He is also
the creator of the Sleepduino and Burnduino open hardware projects, which extend the capabilities of the Arduino
electronics prototyping system. A summary of his current work can be found at http://freelance.halfacree.co.uk.
