These folks are developing a $25 hardware platform. It's somewhat hypothetical at present, but if it becomes reality...wow!
http://www.raspberrypi.org/ The Raspberry Pi Foundation is a UK registered charity (Registration Number 1129409) which exists to promote the study of computer science and related topics, especially at school level, and to put the fun back into learning computing. We plan to develop, manufacture and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world. Our first product is about the size of a USB key, and is designed to plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet. The expected price is $25 for a fully-configured system. How would you use an ultra-low-cost computer? Do you have open-source educational software we can use? Contact us at [email protected]. Do you have a press inquiry? Contact us at [email protected]. Provisional specification 700MHz ARM11 256MB of SDRAM OpenGL ES 2.0 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode Composite and HDMI video output USB 2.0 SD/MMC/SDIO memory card slot General-purpose I/O Open software (Ubuntu, Iceweasel, KOffice, Python) It looks like the only networking option is USB, but if nothing else, there's likely something to learn from this project about building a low-cost device. Something like this, minus graphics, plus WiFi, seems like would make a great value headless platform. -- - mdz _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
