And with five million sold it is today Britain's fastest-selling personal computer, a $35 (£25) successor to kit computers like the Heathkit H8.
The Pi, and its community webpages, try to tempt the public and students to burrow beneath the bonnet of their computers, beyond Facebook, and try their hand at coding.
Eben Upton, Alan Mycroft, and four other academics at the University of Cambridge's Computer Laboratory had noted a decline in skills and numbers of students applying to read Computer Science.
Twenty years before, applicants would have been avid tinkering hobbyists; lately, they may have only done a small bit of web design.
The European Commission has predicted a shortfall of 900,000 adequately skilled programmers and other technology professionals in Europe by 2020.
So the sextet founded the Raspberry Foundation as a charity to revive Britain's garage-geek spirit.
When British astronaut Tim Peake heads to the International Space Station this November, he will bring two augmented space Raspberries, called Astro Pis.
They will run experiments devised by primary and secondary school students, says Dr Upton, Raspberry's chief executive. The older students also will code them
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