Friday, May 6, 2011

€ 17 PC with 1080p HDMI output, which could be better?

What to do with 17 €? Build a tiny personal microcomputer course! It has achieved the feat David Braben, developer of games for the British studio Frontier Developments. And that looks like it was created: The Raspberry Pi is no bigger a USB drive and also uses a USB port for its power and its connection with peripherals.

It has at its other end a HDMI port for display. Her little heart is an ARM architecture v11 SoC clocked at 700 MHz, type of processor that can still be found in a smartphone Nokia N8 example. The integrated GPU supports OpenGL ES 2.0 and a dedicated circuit allows decoding 1080p High Profile video stream at 30 frames per second.

He is backed by 128 MB of SDRAM and accesses a mass storage in the form of a microSD memory card. It is also possible to add modules such as 12 megapixel camera. Far from being a technology demonstration with no future, the Raspberry Pi aims to foster the learning of computer equipment at schools.

We can predict that this gadget, if produced, will find many other applications in the hands of hackers. Is not it dear readers?

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