CHIP is a $9 Raspberry Pi (without some features)

TwistedDictator · May 10, 2015

The Raspberry Pi was definitely a game changer when it hit shelves at only $35. But CHIP is hoping to make the Pi look positively pricey by comparison. The Kickstarter campaign has already blown way past its $50,000 goal. In fact, at the time of this writing its approaching $500,000. Like the Pi, CHIP is a fully functional computer. The tiny board is home to a 1GHz CPU, 512MB of RAM and 4GB of storage, all of which power a full-fledged (if light-weight) Linux desktop. Even more impressive is that there's both WiFi and Bluetooth on board. It's mostly aimed at tinkerers and DIYers, hence the I/O pins waiting for your attention, but you could certainly use it as an inexpensive general purpose computer... so long as you're not particularly demanding.

Now, to be fair, if you want a VGA adaptor or HDMI adaptor you'll have to shell out a little more ($19 and $24 respectively), but you could hook it up to most TVs with the built-in composite video port. The $50 PocketCHIP, however, is truly impressive. It's the same versatile board, but it comes with a case that's home to a battery, a keyboard and 4.3-inch touchscreen. Yes, your smartphone is definitely more powerful, but for $50, this is incredibly impressive for something no bigger than an OG GameBoy

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The source calls it a Raspberry PI killer but that is wrong. For $9 its pretty awesome, to be honest that is amazing! For $9 you can not go wrong, to be it is a must have

Apart from that the $9 version does not come with HDMI ports or a usb port. Raspberry comes with ports and etc, you can get chip with the ports but for $19 minimum. Secondly these little machines are awesome to use but what ever CHIP can do, RPI can also do. The thing is these are good for educational reason which is the reason they were made for. I hate using the PI for work related reason but that is stupid for me to say as its intention wasnt made for that.

MeltingPoint · May 10, 2015

repost

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/362358-chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/

Sidiox · May 10, 2015

And unfortunately it is also a repost http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/362358-chip-the-worlds-first-9-computer/

Agent181 · May 10, 2015

repost

qwertywarrior · May 10, 2015

repost

its a great idea

an A8 soc which is like 3 times faster than the ARM11 on the Pi and a PROPER open sourced driver for that mali 400 unlike that BS opensource driver that broadcom released which was BS