With the human URL [will.i.am] serving as Chief Creative Director of 3D Systems, and [Martha Stewart] selling her own line of 3D printer filament through MakerBot, more and more celebrities are piling onto the hacker, maker, and DIY revolution. Now, the partnership we’ve all been waiting for: the Raspberry Pi Foundation and [The Artist Formerly Known As 
] are teaming up to produce a line of Pi-based wearable electronics. The first product from this new, fashionable line of electronics is beyond anything you would expect. It’s called the Raspberry Beret, and it’s shaping up to be a Revolution in wearables.
The wearable Raspberry Beret is exactly what you would expect: a habadasher’s masterpiece that pairs equally well with figure skating costumes and skin-tight cloud print suits. Inside, though, is a new piece of hardware based on the Raspberry Pi compute module. This module includes a Bluetooth module that will sync with any Windows phone. The Raspberry Beret also includes enough sensors that will blow away everything from a Fitbit to the new Apple Watch. The Raspberet will keep track of your heart rate, activity, and exercise routine.
The Raspberry Beret is just the beginning; the Pi Foundation and [The Artist Formerly Known As ] are also teaming up with OSH Park to produce a limited, special edition Raspberry Pi 2. This board will be clad in the beautiful OSH Park purple soldermask and sports 4GB of eMMC Flash. This Flash will not be usable; instead it will contain a remastered edition of Purple Rain that will play as a startup chime. There will be no option to skip the chime.
Pancakes.
I hate April 1st. Every content creator suddenly interprets it as license to troll IRL. Not funny.
Trolls don’t need a license. It’s always justified.
somebody took the purple acid.
What with this and the new Arduino Quattro, the new miniature device designed to fit on a housecat’s collar, the OSH community is really going to the dogs.
The kind you buy in a second-hand store? Nice one, guys!
Can I connect my “INNER SELFIE STICK” to it?
http://www.firebox.com/product/7078/Inner-Selfie-Stick?src_t=nwt&src_id=000&via=press_nl&via=NL_row&NL_pos=5
I just hope the “unnamed one” finds this as funny as you guys do….
“more and more celebrities are piling onto the hacker, maker, and DIY revolution”
Tosh.
More and more celebrities are piling into the “revolution” to take advantage and make a buck as they do in as many markets as possible.
Selling the brand and milking the dumb fools that think celebrity endorsement = added value, in any market.
It’s a joke son. But I do have a spare pair of Beats headphones I could sell you real cheap.
Oh if only HaD had a like button.
Does anyone remember when these bizarre 4/1 stories would actually “get you”? First one I recall was a short piece in Popular Electronics back in the day.
On the 4th January? That’ll be why…
The one about the Highly efficient CPU that emits light?
Write Only Memory was a good one.
Turned out some engineers had been looking for exactly that, without knowing it was what they needed, so after the joke advertisement WOM eventually became a real thing. Ideas can be powerful, just saying “What if…” can set wheels in motion.
Let’s hope the Purple Pi beret is *not* one of those ideas.
Yep… you got me…
but I like the eMMC option… Somebody? Please?
Waffles
Yep, there it is! The article to AprilFoulsDay!
Easy to catch because there is no link to the back the story.
No Link to Raspberry Foundation which confirms these information!
Nice Try Folks!
April Fools?
I hate today. I’m boycotting the Internet for a day.
At least the editor has style, he could have choozen worse “artists”
I’m going to play some PacMan
On Google Maps?
Good one :D
The windows phone thing killed me.
+1
I would have seriously bought this! Why is it that the best ideas are always presented at April 1st? :(
Stop, just stop.
I’ll wait for the Fedora Edition.
I see what you did there ………@^@
Funny April 1 article, Brian, but you missed a perfectly good opportunity to poke some fun at Jamie Hyneman!
Great. Now I’ve got that song stuck in my head until the next rickroll.
99 luftballons…da dada da da dada…trala la la la lalaaaah…. There I fixed that for you/
Raspberry Beret
Looks like a pimp.
I…. I just don’t know, man. Really?
I only started to wonder at 4GB for a remastered version of “purple rain” – no way it’s that big. I’d love to have a purple pi.
Hey! Jamie Hyneman should endorse this!
She wore a raspberry beret, like the kind you get at the sparkfun store!
He he, had me all the way to “windows phone”. That made me laugh even harder.
You know what would be a great april fools joke? If HaD was flooded with these projects: encasing a raspberry pi board, call it a “retro gaming console”, and “call it a day”. Now that’s a joke!
Next stop on the tour: ThinkGeek.
I don’t get it…
Berets are ugly anyways. We don’t need a bunch of kids out enacting vigilante justice while a lopsided pillow collects sensor data, which in this fictitious case would end up sending each wearer relevant junk mail… because in this world and ours, big corporations sell your data.
HALF LIFE 3 confirmed!!!
Nice idea who know, https://youtu.be/GNTgseCkqic
Such a hat would make it easier to spot morons IRL so I kinda wish it was real :(