They’ll say “that’s banned too”.

Their language here is imprecise and that’s crappy but the intent is clearly to ban little microboard computers, they’re just using “Raspberry Pi” to describe it.

The brand won’t matter. A PCB-like thing will be considered equivalent.

Difficulty of enforcement has never stopped such things.

Call it a donut-pi and watch their minds explode.

You could also try American pie, apple pie (Hi mom) or perhaps freedom pi. A decent stars and stripes heat sink should be pretty easy to fiddle up, and probably exists already.

I feel like programmers model the law as a programming language, while it only works like that in very limited contexts.

They said Raspberry PI, but the spirit of the rule is "electronic looking thing that we can't immediately determine the function of". You could probably show up with an unpopulated PCB and get turned away because it's green.

Arrest first understand later enforcement