Operation Manual

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 customers. 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.
For Liz, who made it all possible.
—Eben