Subject/Object: Raspberry Pi
Chris Richards
In 2024, the University of Arizona Libraries loaned more technology devices (17,850 loans) than books, media, maps and other printed matter (17,782 loans). Some of these devices are probably familiar: laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots. Others point somewhere new. The Raspberry Pi is a computer about the size of a credit card originally developed by faculty at the University of Cambridge in England to teach computer science but that has since been used to build everything from arcade-game simulators to baby monitors. (This one was accessed from the Rhonda G. Tubbs Tech Toolshed on the first floor of the Main Library on a hot July afternoon.) It doesn’t smell as good as an old book, and doesn’t have quite the same mysterious, transportive feeling in your hands, either. But to the right mind, it can be just as expansive a tool. ❖