Raspberry Pi 1 Model B units brought back to life for charity @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

James Dawson bought over 200 Raspberry Pi’s, refurbished them for resale and he is donating the money from those resales to the Learn at Home campaign, Via Raspberrypi.org

We decided to learn a little more about the guy behind this generous idea.

Where do your computer repair skills come from?

I’m a 25-year-old guy from Newcastle Upon Tyne. I’ve always been into computers and started weekend work experience in a computer repair shop, which turned into an apprenticeship and then a full-time job, giving me a basic knowledge of board-level repairs and hardware diagnostics.

Why Raspberry Pi?

Around the time the first Raspberry Pi (the Model B) came out in 2012, the company I worked for took on a large client in their business IT support division that ran Linux based servers. I immediately purchased a Raspberry Pi and set about learning my way around the Linux terminal and picked it up pretty quickly.

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