Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi
06/05/11 09:20
Exciting news from the UK, The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced their plans to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. Version 1.0 will be the size of a USB thumb drive, and will plug into a display. Price should be about $25.
The current specs are:
Development is largely due to David Braben, the games developer responsible for Elite, Frontier and Zarch (and other great games). Very much looking forward to seeing this.
The current specs are:
- 700MHz ARM11
- 128MB of SDRAM
- OpenGL ES 2.0
- 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
- Composite and HDMI video output
- USB 2.0
- SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot
- General-purpose I/O
- Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)
Development is largely due to David Braben, the games developer responsible for Elite, Frontier and Zarch (and other great games). Very much looking forward to seeing this.