The innovative Raspberry Pi project [1] has entered the home straight, as production of the first wave of computers has begun, Digital Trends reports. The brainchild of David Braben, best known to many as the co-writer of the epic space-trading game Elite, the idea behind Raspberry Pi is to encourage high school students to learn computer programming, without the school needing a huge budget. As previously reported [2], there will be two Raspberry Pi models. Model A will cost £16/$25 and come with 128MB RAM, while Model B will have 256MB RAM, an Ethernet port at a price of £25/$35. The tiny computers use Linux and have a 700Mhz ARM 11 processor, a USB port and an HDMI-out. The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced via their official blog [3] that the first run of 10,000 Model B PCs has already begun, but added that initial plans to manufacture them in the UK had to be canceled thanks to prohibitive taxation. As the Foundation is a charity, it was important to make the most of their funds, hence moving production to the Far East…