THE VIDEO SHELF · raspberry pi supply shortage
He started a computing REVOLUTION—then the shortage hit
Jeff Geerling interviews Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton about the Pi shortage, the RP2040, RISC-V, the Sony investment and the origin of the name.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it to explain why Pi supply favored business customers during the shortage, straight from a founder.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Jeff Geerling
- Topic
- raspberry pi supply shortage
- Format
- interview
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 4
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2023–2023
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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There's a great interview with Eben Upton that explains a lot of this, including what "Business customers" actually are (i.e. mostly mom and pop style enterprises) [VIDEO]
lvturner on Hacker News · 2023-06
InThis interview with one of the founders from Jeff Geerling was quite insightful, definitely check it out if you haven't already! [VIDEO]
PointedDreams on Hacker News · 2023-07
In Tell HN: Digikey has 1822 Pi4 8GB in stock
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