Raspberry PI Launched today - 35$ for XBMC

[cvrle77]

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)

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]

cvrle77 Reviewed by cvrle77 on 29th Feb 2012. Raspberry PI Launched today - 35$ for XBMC 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) 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 Rating: 5

[ShareShiz]

i love XBMC.. use it on my old dell. but seeing it on a credit card sized chip.. EPIC

should be seeing these standard on tv soon.

[cvrle77]

Basically, you can buy cheaper TV without USB, that have internal xvid-h264 decoder and plug it to this, via HDMI or COAX, and a LOT more. This is a whole, small sized, silent,cheap PC, not just XBMC. You can play even 3D games. And power consumption - 3W.

Just compare yesterdays announcement on similar device: http://www.besthostingforums.com/14-...-preorder.html

Price difference 200$ : 35$
Characteristics, uncomparable

[foxman]

teach children

It can used to teach adults too

[b1gj4v]

It's aimed at anyone that is interested in computer science/programming good to see someone helping out with the development of kids now it needs to be introduced in to schools