The Raspberry Pi (haha) USB computer is tiny, and the man who made it intends to manufacture it so cheaply he says it could be given away to school children.
Created by UK game developer David Braben (Genius?!), the computer is about the size of a typical USB stick and will costs only $25. With a USB port on one side and HDMI port on the other, it can function just like a real PC.
What sorts of components can you fit on such a limited piece of real estate? Surprisingly, there’s enough room for a 700 MHz ARM11 processor, 128 MB of RAM and OpenGL graphics with enough power to display 1080p video. Wowza!!!
The ultra mini PC is versatile, too. In fact, that picture above shows a 12-megapixel camera he’s added for videoconferencing, photo taking and video recording. There’s an SD card slot for storage, and that’s where you install the operating system of your choice such as Ubuntu or other open-source operating systems.
While the Raspberry Pi is not quite fully baked yet, Braben’s working on it. “We hope something will be rolled out in 12 months,” he says.
Watch him talking in this video about his new PC and how he hopes his charitable Raspberry Pi Foundation will spread this low-cost technology far and wide:
thanks goes out to mashable.com for giving up the good word
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