{"id":1643,"date":"2014-03-31T01:20:41","date_gmt":"2014-03-31T06:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:26:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:26:20","slug":"in-praise-of-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2014\/03\/in-praise-of-the-raspberry-pi\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>Praising the most successful education project in the history of man: the Raspberry Pi. Nobel Prize? Why not?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two years ago the Raspberry Pi was launched. 2.5 million units later, it is still going. Two years is a long time in technology\u2014a very long time. (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Raspberry_Pi\">Wikipedia has a good article on the Raspberry Pi<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The idea was simple:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>build a programmable computer that any school could afford to buy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The schools would be able to teach computer programming. The price: $25.<\/p>\n<p>It worked. It has worked better than any education project I can recall. Hooray for the guys who did this. This is Nobel Prize worthy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips Praising the most successful education project in the history of man: the Raspberry Pi. Nobel Prize? Why not? Two years ago the Raspberry Pi was launched. 2.5 million units later, it is still going. Two years is a long time in technology\u2014a very long time. (Wikipedia has a good article on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,23,3],"tags":[207,145,126],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-programming","category-technology","tag-education","tag-programming","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}