Micro Center®: Exclusive U.S. Retailer to Offer All-New Raspberry Pi® Zero W

"Micro Center is the premier bricks-and-mortar store for makers in the US, and a longstanding friend and partner of the Raspberry Pi Foundation. In the fifteen months since we launched Zero, we've been consistently impressed with their work bringing the product to market, and working to help their customers and ours understand how to get the most out of this new tool. We're delighted to be launching Zero W with Micro Center today, and look forward to a long and fruitful partnership," said Eben Upton, Co-founder and Trading CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

"We're excited about the $10 Raspberry Pi Zero W single board computer. Partnering with the Raspberry Pi Foundation is an obvious choice to make computing devices more accessible," said Kevin L. Jones, Micro Center Vice President – Merchandising. "We're also pleased that a portion of the proceeds from each sale goes to support the non-profit Raspberry Pi Foundation, where one of their goals is to drive down the cost of computer hardware for everyone."

As the largest Maker Products/DIY retailer in the U.S., Micro Center offers customers the convenience of being able to purchase popular attachments for the Raspberry Pi Zero W from Adafruit and Pimoroni at all Micro Center stores.  Like Micro Center, both Adafruit® and Pimoroni® financially support the Raspberry Pi Foundation.

About Micro Center

Micro Center operates twenty-five large computer and consumer electronics stores in major markets nationwide.  Founded in 1979 in Columbus, Micro Center is designed to satisfy the dedicated computer and consumer electronics customer.  Uniquely focused on computers and related products, Micro Center offers more computers and related items (more than 30,000 items in stock) than any other retailer.  Micro Center is passionate about offering a high level of customer service and pioneered 18-minute in-store pickup for online orders starting in 2009. Consumers can visit Micro Center's 25 stores from coast-to-coast or microcenter.com for thousands of computer-related items, electronics and other technology products.

Micro Center stores are located in:

Atlanta (2), Baltimore, Boston, Chicago (2), Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York (5), Philadelphia, St. Louis, Washington, D.C.(2)

About the Raspberry Pi Foundation

The Raspberry Pi Foundation works to put the power of digital making into the hands of people all over the world, so they are capable of understanding and shaping our increasingly digital world, able to solve the problems that matter to them, and equipped for the jobs of the future.

The foundation develops low-cost, high-performance computers that people use to learn, solve problems and have fun. It focuses on outreach and education to help more people access computing and digital making. It creates free resources to help people learn about computing and how to make things with computers, and train educators who can guide other people to learn.

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