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About the Authors
Eben Upton
is a founder and trustee of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and serves as its
Executive Director. He is responsible for the overall software and hardware architecture of
the Raspberry Pi, and for the Foundation’s relationships with its key suppliers and custom-
ers. In an earlier life, he founded two successful mobile games and middleware companies,
Ideaworks 3d Ltd. and Podfun Ltd., and held the post of Director of Studies for Computer
Science at St John’s College, Cambridge. He holds a BA, a PhD and an MBA from the
University of Cambridge.
In his day job, Eben works for Broadcom as an ASIC architect and general troublemaker.
Gareth Halfacree is a freelance technology journalist and the co-author of the Raspberry Pi
User Guide alongside project co-founder Eben Upton. Formerly a system administrator working
in the education sector, Gareth’s passion for open source projects has followed him from one
career to another, and he can often be seen reviewing, documenting or even contributing to
projects including GNU/Linux, LibreOffice, Fritzing and Arduino. He is also the creator of
the Sleepduino and Burnduino open hardware projects, which extend the capabilities of the
Arduino electronics prototyping system. A summary of his current work can be found at
http://freelance.halfacree.co.uk
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