The technology has a plethora of advancement in it. Though there are
reasonable improvements made with the technology, the cost of the
resultant product is really expensive as per the technology built it.
Though the Microcontrollers are becoming familiar in these days, none of
them acts like a Single System on Chip indeed. Still, they are just
utilizing for the coders and other supporting functions of the giant
computers or laptops. Can you imagine a computer that costs just $9?
Certain peoples achieved the same. A new product launched by a team of
Nine Artists & Engineers from Next Thing Co, has made a lower cost
single board computer, which cost only $9. This latest development board
is termed as “CHIP”.
According to the team of Next Thing Co, this $9 Computer
is capable of performing all the basic tasks that are associated with
the todays modern computers emphatically. Some of the basic tasks
includes, simple word processing works, playing video games, checking
& sending emails (internet connectivity support). Interestingly,
this is just a Chip, not a full computer peripheral where you would have
a monitor and keyboard for input & output processing stuffs. But,
you can simply connect this $9 Computer to any of your available monitor
to perform the tasks mentioned above. It’s just like Plug & play,
not USB media as well.
Unless it is a Chinese maker, you could never imagine an inexpensive
stuff in the electronic media. Definitely, the new $9 Computer is
designed and developed based on the A13 Processor built by Allwinner,
(Shenzhen, China based Electronics Company). Hope you know, the
Allwinner Inc is the world’s second largest manufacturer of tablet and
the A13 Tablet was one among the strongest lineup in their career.
Right collaboration with the AllWinner Inc by the Next Thing Co earned the early access to the birth of $9 Computer. AllWinner company is looking to redesign their successful A13 Chip and the aspirants of the Next Thing Co provided their views to design a new Chip termed as “R8”, which is now the heart of the most affordable $9 Computer in the world.
“Though, the developers say it cost only $9, there are few difficulties in launching the computer at the same cost”, says Dave Rauchwerk, one among the 3 founders of Next Thing Inc. This is especially because, finding the right hardware and software combination to bring the CHIP a full computer (like at least with QWERTY Keyboard & Simple 4-5inch monitor) needs additional cost, he adds. “OTTO is a tool for experimenting with Photograph” says Rauchwerk and “Chip is a tool for experimenting with Computers”, he explains further about the testing features of this $9 Computer.
“The $9 becomes really interesting when lots of people can help make
it awesome” says Rauchwerk. “We wanted to find a way to not only give
everyone access to it but to give them the ability to participate in
this process of developing it.” This intern rose to attempt a Fundraiser
by CHIP Kicstarter of about $50,000. This amount is dedicated to
initiating the first production of the device in the market. This event
is planned to have a deadline of 6th June 2015.
There is nothing more interesting than the stuff which makes our life more interesting than ever, at affordable rates, isn’t!
Technical Features of World First $9 Computer:
- This World’s first $9 Computer is running on the Debian Linux (flavor) operating system.
- The Processor section is covered by ARM R8, which is clocked at 1GHz and the same is well coupled to the 512MB RAM.
- The internal storage of this $9 Computer is built with 4GB eMMC type storage.
- To make the stuff very interesting and useful for the modern world requirements, it is also enabled with built in Wi-Fi & Bluetooth wireless sensors.
- There is a separate slot for USB, Micro USB and Audio Jack, which you don’t even get in few Macbooks for sure.
- This latest portable computer is capable of operating by consuming less battery.
- These technical features suggest that, this $9 Computer is certainly powerful than a Raspberry Pi B+ computer
Know How the $9 Computer Developed:
Right collaboration with the AllWinner Inc by the Next Thing Co earned the early access to the birth of $9 Computer. AllWinner company is looking to redesign their successful A13 Chip and the aspirants of the Next Thing Co provided their views to design a new Chip termed as “R8”, which is now the heart of the most affordable $9 Computer in the world.
“Though, the developers say it cost only $9, there are few difficulties in launching the computer at the same cost”, says Dave Rauchwerk, one among the 3 founders of Next Thing Inc. This is especially because, finding the right hardware and software combination to bring the CHIP a full computer (like at least with QWERTY Keyboard & Simple 4-5inch monitor) needs additional cost, he adds. “OTTO is a tool for experimenting with Photograph” says Rauchwerk and “Chip is a tool for experimenting with Computers”, he explains further about the testing features of this $9 Computer.
CHIP Kickstarter Fundraiser for $9 Computer Production:
There is nothing more interesting than the stuff which makes our life more interesting than ever, at affordable rates, isn’t!
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