Raspberry Pi takes aim at the education market
Phil Lelyveld
Entertainment Technology Center
[Philip Lelyveld comment: $25 computer that is 3D-capable!]
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The Raspberry Pi project, founded by Broadcom engineer Eben Upton and co-creator of Elite David Braben, aims to revolutionise the education industry with an ultra-cheap computer capable of amazing feats of computation.
Attendees of the Educating Programmers Summit found themselves treated to a demonstration of the Raspberry Pi single-board computer by co-creator Eben Upton. Based on chips from Upton’s day job at Broadcom, the Raspberry Pi is an entirely functional computer which will hit a retail price of just $25 in its basic incarnation – addressing one of the issues preventing the teaching of programming in schools today. …
“For $25 we can give you a 700MHz ARM, we can give you more graphical performance than an Xbox One, we can give you the ability to play 1080p Blu-ray – this thing can even be used to replace your Apple TV,” he told attendees over an early prototype board. “For $35 we can add to that another 128MB of RAM, we can add the network option – and based on the feedback we’ve had online, we suspect that most of our business is going to be in that $35 point.
“Even at $35, you could equip a classroom of these for less than a thousand dollars. …
… The [graphic] 3D capabilities are also impressive, with a recent video having been released showing the device running multiplayer FPS Quake III Arena at a totally playable frame rate despite the processor’s 700MHz clock speed.
See a video and read the full story here: http://www.thinq.co.uk/2011/8/29/raspberry-pi-takes-aim-education-market/
