A credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to code goes on general sale for the first time today. (and their website crashed due to heavy demand)
Looking like little more than a credit card-sized chip of circuit board, the powerful, fully-programmable PC can plug into any TV and can power 3D graphics and Blu-ray video playback.
The Pi was created by volunteers in the UK, and all profits go back to a charity.
Its makers hope that enthusiasts will write software for it, and that it will be used in schools.
Features
Pre-orders can be made on RS and Element14 websites
Cost of this device is 35$ (£21.60)
More explanation on what can be done with it, in these 2 videos:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66IWxRWpre0[/ame]
What is Raspberry PI?
Looking like little more than a credit card-sized chip of circuit board, the powerful, fully-programmable PC can plug into any TV and can power 3D graphics and Blu-ray video playback.
The Pi was created by volunteers in the UK, and all profits go back to a charity.
Its makers hope that enthusiasts will write software for it, and that it will be used in schools.
Features
- Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
- GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
- GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
- 256MB RAM
- Boots from SD card, running the Fedora version of Linux
- 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
- HDMI socket
- USB 2.0 socket
- RCA video socket
- SD card socket
- Powered from microUSB socket
- 3.5mm audio out jack
- Header footprint for camera connection
- Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17mm
Pre-orders can be made on RS and Element14 websites
Cost of this device is 35$ (£21.60)
More explanation on what can be done with it, in these 2 videos:
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_mDuJuvZjI[/ame]
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66IWxRWpre0[/ame]
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