Everyone wants a slice of Raspberry Pi | Technology | The Observer. It's 9am on a lovely autumn morning at Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, just outside Geneva. The sun shines on to an open vista of fields and mountains, glistens off nearby lakes. It's an ideal day for cycling, walking, picnicking; almost anything other than messing around with computers in the dark. I am standing in the dark, watching people mess around with computers. Scruffy young men take cables out of plastic carrier bags and plug them into the back of television screens. Still, it's not Cern that we're checking out.
You will notice that near every terminal sits a small green circuit board. The Raspberry Pi is a robust, cheap (about £25), low-powered programmable computer. So let's see, shall we? Mickal, who's six, is as charming an advert for the RPi as you will ever meet. Nancy, seven, is also enjoying herself. Nearby, Thomas, seven, is having a go too. The geek buzz around the RPi – let's not forget it's been around less than a year – has been phenomenal. Raspberry Pi | An ARM GNU/Linux box for $25. Take a byte! Ryanteck | A blog about computer stuff. Top 10 Raspberry Pi Myths and Truths.