Introducing Raspberry Pi-Top

Innovative projects arise from truly original thinking and can result in products that have not quite ever been seen before. Three-D printing, for example, is proving to be that kind of innovative tech tool, previously matched only by Meccano, Erector Set, or Lego, but with the added advantage that the finished gadget is a productive tool, and not a toy.

The Raspberry Pi-Top project, or Pi-Top as it is mostly known, is another such project [1] [2]. The Pi-Top (Figure 1) project is aimed at the constructor market – a place where experimental ideas and an entrepreneurial approach have thrived. A learning environment and a desire to make computers accessible to anyone are strong driving forces.

Unlike other netbook-style laptops out there, such as the Google Chromebook or the Microsoft Surface, the Raspberry Pi-Top focuses on teaching people how to start making – without strong patents or proprietary hardware and codebases that stop users from experimenting and adapting products.

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