Join us on Wednesday, January 15 at noon Pacific for the Raspberry Pi Hack Chat with Eben Upton!
The Hack Chat has been on an extended hiatus, but we’re back for 2025 and coming strong out of the gate! We’ve been trying to get Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton on the chat for a while, but there was that whole thing of taking the company public that probably distracted him a wee bit. That’s fine though, because we know he loves getting in the trenches with the hacker community and talking about the things we all love to talk about. It’s not often that you get a chance for a one-on-one like this, so make sure you join us with all your Pi-related questions.
Our Hack Chats are live community events in the Hackaday.io Hack Chat group messaging. This week we’ll be sitting down on Wednesday, January 15 at 12:00 PM Pacific time. If time zones have you tied up, we have a handy time zone converter.
[Image credit: Sniper Zeta, CC BY-SA 4.0]
That’s 17:00 UTC for those who don’t live in the Pacific.
I live in the Pacific, but at +10. It’s a big place!
I feel like “taking the company public” and “loves getting in the trenches with the hacker community” don’t really go together.
ah yes, never forget the time he accused the entire community he’s supposedly ‘getting in the trenches’ with of dog-piling and being bots when they voiced concerned after he hired a surveillance cop… and expect everyone to just applaud this tone-def move?
Nice to see we could hold off on the political commentary for at least the first few comments.
/s
Sarcasm notation is like raising a sad white flag over all of English literature… Here lies the English language, born circa 5th century AD, died June 2005 at the founding of reddit.com
They’d probably crumble to dust if they let up on the irrational hatred for a microsecond.
how is this politics? This is something he did, and it should be remembered.
I agree with you. He will soon realize that doing this was the downfall of the company.
“Developers developers developers developers!”
new RP2350 stepping when?
Looks like a comedian ready to do dad jokes and nerd humor.
Hmm.. I like the pi but there is a strange Ballmer-esque vibe from that picture!
I remember attending a conference in the 90s where I was told in no uncertain terms not to sit near the front as Steve sweats and you were liable to get drenched in the front row.
That was actually meant to be a reply to TG’s comment. Not sure what HAD’s comment system was playing at.
I’m sure Eben is nothing like Ballmer in person.
Raspberry Pi did a lot of things right but did a lot of things wrong too. They’ve managed to piss off a lot of their community with some of their antics but the RP2xxx chips are quite nice dev platforms when you don’t need the power of a full SBC.
Hmm.. I like the pi but there is a strange Ballmer-esque vibe from that picture!
I remember attending a conference in the 90s where I was told in no uncertain terms not to sit near the front as Steve sweats and you were liable to get drenched in the front row.
Apologies for the repeat post. Not sure what happened there either. HAD you really need to sort that out.
I know you don’t want to have to get people to register to post comments but that would stop the system double-posting comments and allow comments to be edited by the OP.