Raspberry Pi computer finally reaches schoolchildren Today, Premier Farnell, one of the distributors, will hand some of its first shipment to local schoolchildren at its Leeds warehouse. First, manufacturing contractor used the wrong internet connection component. Then, when the time came to import completed hardware to the European Union, the Raspberry Pi Foundation was surprised to learn it had to submit to safety certification. The red tape caused a further delay of almost two weeks. The glitches have failed to dampen the excitement around the project, however. Schools and Linux enthusiasts overloaded pre-order websites when they first opened in March. The device, roughly the size of a credit card, consists of a naked circuit board with a "system on a chip" processor that handles all the computing required to run the open source Linux operating system and software coding applications. Its power is roughly equivalent to Apple's second generation iPhone 3G, which was released in 2008.