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This edition first published 2016

© 2016 Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree

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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 Foundation’s relationships with its key suppliers and customers. 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 John's 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, Gareth's 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.

About the Technical Editor

ANDREW SCHELLER is a freelance software developer based in Cambridge in the UK. He has worked on many projects for a variety of clients, including updating the Raspberry Pi NOOBS software to run on the Raspberry Pi 2. Prior to going freelance, he served as a tools programmer for Sony Computer Entertainment, working on a number of titles, including MediEvil Resurrection for the PlayStation Portable and 24: The Game for the PlayStation 2. While there he developed a localisation system which has become adopted as the standard by all Sony game studios worldwide. He spends some of his free time working on open source software, and has been using Linux for more than 20 years. He enjoys walking, cycling, and climbing, and holds a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Durham University.

For Liz, who made it all possible.

– Eben

For my father, the enthusiastic past, and my daughters, the exciting future.

– Gareth