The $35 credit-card-sized computer reached its latest milestone the last week of October. November 18, 2013 5:38 AM PST Raspberry Pi. (Credit: Eric Mack / CNET) Raspberry Pi has sliced up a healthy 2 million in sales. The small hobbyist computer registered its sales feat sometime during the final week of October, the Raspberry Pi Foundation said in a blog posted on Sunday. Based on prior sales growth, the organization said it expected to reach the 2 million mark in January or February of 2014, so the new sales figures came as "a bit of a shock." Consumer demand for the credit-card-sized computer seems to be ramping up, since the foundation announced 1.75 million sales in early October. Selling for $35 a piece, Raspberry Pi is essentially a small motherboard equipped with a CPU and several different ports. The device is aimed at students and tech hobbyists who want to write software for it or incorporate it into their own unique projects. Pi can also serve as a media-streaming platform and an arena for playing games. Read the CNET Editors' Take Raspberry Pi (Model B) Editors' Take: We give our first impressions of the $35 Raspberry Pi, an intriguing, eminently affordable hobbyist computer. Read More

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The $35 credit-card-sized computer reached its latest milestone the last week of October.

November 18, 2013 5:38 AM PST

Raspberry Pi.

(Credit: Eric Mack / CNET)

Raspberry Pi has sliced up a healthy 2 million in sales.

The small hobbyist computer registered its sales feat sometime during the final week of October, the Raspberry Pi Foundation said in a blog posted on Sunday. Based on prior sales growth, the organization said it expected to reach the 2 million mark in January or February of 2014, so the new sales figures came as "a bit of a shock."

Consumer demand for the credit-card-sized computer seems to be ramping up, since the foundation announced 1.75 million sales in early October.

Selling for $35 a piece, Raspberry Pi is essentially a small motherboard equipped with a CPU and several different ports. The device is aimed at students and tech hobbyists who want to write software for it or incorporate it into their own unique projects. Pi can also serve as a media-streaming platform and an arena for playing games.