The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity established to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to “put the fun back into learning computing.”
The project plans to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer for use in teaching computer programming to children, and the developers expect this computer to have many other applications in both the developed and the developing world.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s first product is a tiny Linux machine about the size of a USB key that is designed to be plugged into a TV or combined with a touch screen to make a low cost tablet. The expected price is—are you ready?—$25 for a fully-configured system. If that can be made reality, sign me up for one, or two, or three.
Raspberry Pi device with attached 12MPixel camera module
Provisional specification of Raspberry Pismo micro PC:
700MHz ARM11 CPU128MB of SDRAMOpenGL ES 2.01080p30 H.264 high-profile decodeComposite and HDMI video outputUSB 2.0SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slotGeneral-purpose I/OOpen software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python)Observation: If Raspberry Pi (love the name, being a big fan of raspberries!) can squeeze a USB port into a device this tiny, surely Apple could put one in the iPad, n’est ce pas?
For more information, visit raspberrypi.org
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