{"id":9781,"date":"2011-05-07T18:25:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T18:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/05\/07\/25-tiny-computer\/"},"modified":"2011-05-07T18:25:45","modified_gmt":"2011-05-07T18:25:45","slug":"25-tiny-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/07\/25-tiny-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"$25 tiny computer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The games developer David Braben and some colleagues [developed] something called Raspberry Pi. It&#8217;s a whole computer on a tiny circuit board &#8211; not much more than an ARM processor, a USB port, and an HDMI connection. They plugged a keyboard into one end, and hooked the other into a TV they had brought with them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pQ7N4rycsy4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yeah, yeah, help the little British school children yadayadayada.  Let me know how that goes.   Mean time, I WANT SOME OF THESE.  I can imagine buying them six on a card off the wall at the supermarket!<\/p>\n<p>One, Imma build into a belt buckle with the usb cord and video cord as the belt.  Another, Imma attach to the new TV and put a bluetooth dongle in it.  And so on.<\/p>\n<p>If this turns out to be some kind of fantasy of this guy Braben, and it doesn&#8217;t really work and can&#8217;t get off the ground and there won&#8217;t be one available in May 2012, then there will be hell to pay.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I&#8217;ll glue one to the back of my Kindle and attach one to my camera&#8217;s lens cap and there is the possibility of designing a fishing lure that runs on Linux and &#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip: Gwen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The games developer David Braben and some colleagues [developed] something called Raspberry Pi. It&#8217;s a whole computer on a tiny circuit board &#8211; not much more than an ARM processor, a USB port, and an HDMI connection. They plugged a keyboard into one end, and hooked the other into a TV they had brought with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/07\/25-tiny-computer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">$25 tiny computer!<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[697,866,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2xL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}