Raspberry Pi - Computer on a Stick
Apple have been using ARM processors iPODs for a number of years. The iPAD uses an ARM Cortex-A9-based CPU accompanied by a GPU. Sony’s next generation portable gaming device (PSP, NGP, VITA) to be launched at sometime later this year will also use an ARM processor.
The consumer and embedded marketplace simply wouldn’t be the same without ARM.
Today I read about something quite amazing on Electronics Weekly – Raspberry Pi is a tiny ARM-based single board computer that enables a TV to run Linux and scripting languages such as Python. Designed by Cambridge business men and academics to engage children with computer science and thereby improve the skills pool from which they draw employees and undergraduates, it is causing a stir in the developing world.
The result is a 32-bit ARM11-based computer than needs no supporting PC. The size of a USB stick, it has an HDMI connector on one end for the TV, a USB connector at the other end for the keyboard, and it boots immediately into Linux running a scripting language.
The company behind this amazing piece of hardware say they can buidl it for £15 each and its mission is: “To promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing”..
Further details can be found on the Raspberry Pi Foundation website and on Electronics weekly.
Source – http://www.electronicsweekly.com
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