Limited
February 29th, 2012, 04:47 PM
Launched today - already ran out of stock, flew off the selfs like hot cakes!
In short its a pretty powerful super small computer, designed to experiment with programming and what not. The best part is it only costs £22 (around $35). See below for more technical details. I'm really excited to see what this offers, its opening up that old school styling of tinkering with it along with a low budget which will really attract new people. Personally I want one so I can use Linux on it, and just mess around.
Outputs HD video by the way and is the size of a business card.
Heres some info for those who havent heard about it.
http://www.element14.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/102-42993-8-67171/450-369/RasPI+(2).jpg
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http://www.raspberrypi.org/
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The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which includes an ARM1176JZF-S (http://www.element14.com/community/static/knode/dev_platforms_kits/learning_center/architectures/arm11) 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 128 or 256 Megabytes of RAM. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead relying on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. This board is intended to run Linux kernel based operating systems.
The foundation plans to release two versions; Model A & Model B. Model A will have 128 Megabytes (MB) RAM memory, one USB port and no Ethernet controller, while model B will contain 256MB RAM memory, two USB ports and a 10/100 Ethernet controller.
Though the Model A doesn't have an RJ45 Ethernet port, it can connect to a network by using a user supplied USB Ethernet or Wi-Fi adapter. As typical of modern computers, generic USB keyboards and mice are compatible with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi use Linux-kernel based operating systems. Debian GNU/Linux, Iceweasel, Calligra Suite and Python are planned to be bundled with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi does not come with a real-time clock, so an OS must use a network time server, or ask the user for time information at boot time to get access to time and date info for file time and date stamping. However a real time clock (such as the DS1307) with battery backup can be easily added via the I2C interface.
In short its a pretty powerful super small computer, designed to experiment with programming and what not. The best part is it only costs £22 (around $35). See below for more technical details. I'm really excited to see what this offers, its opening up that old school styling of tinkering with it along with a low budget which will really attract new people. Personally I want one so I can use Linux on it, and just mess around.
Outputs HD video by the way and is the size of a business card.
Heres some info for those who havent heard about it.
http://www.element14.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/102-42993-8-67171/450-369/RasPI+(2).jpg
RbWE6qF7pIM
http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Blurp...
The Raspberry Pi is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. The design is based around a Broadcom BCM2835 SoC, which includes an ARM1176JZF-S (http://www.element14.com/community/static/knode/dev_platforms_kits/learning_center/architectures/arm11) 700 MHz processor, VideoCore IV GPU, and 128 or 256 Megabytes of RAM. The design does not include a built-in hard disk or solid-state drive, instead relying on an SD card for booting and long-term storage. This board is intended to run Linux kernel based operating systems.
The foundation plans to release two versions; Model A & Model B. Model A will have 128 Megabytes (MB) RAM memory, one USB port and no Ethernet controller, while model B will contain 256MB RAM memory, two USB ports and a 10/100 Ethernet controller.
Though the Model A doesn't have an RJ45 Ethernet port, it can connect to a network by using a user supplied USB Ethernet or Wi-Fi adapter. As typical of modern computers, generic USB keyboards and mice are compatible with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi use Linux-kernel based operating systems. Debian GNU/Linux, Iceweasel, Calligra Suite and Python are planned to be bundled with the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi does not come with a real-time clock, so an OS must use a network time server, or ask the user for time information at boot time to get access to time and date info for file time and date stamping. However a real time clock (such as the DS1307) with battery backup can be easily added via the I2C interface.