“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi

Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by jsilence on Friday May 08, 2015 @03:05AM (#9510355)

Not to belittle their effort, but if you add the HDMI shield to the main board, you end up with a 24$ computer. That is pretty close to the RasPi 2.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by icefox on Friday May 08, 2015 @09:27AM (#9511554)

Except almost more interesting than the chip itself is the PocketChip which lets you easily swap the computers so not only could you upgrade to a faster chip when it comes out, but you could treat them as cartridge. At $9 a pop I could sell a game for the pocketchip for $20 and it just so happens that the game comes on a full blown computer. Combined with an open source design and you could have a number of different computers with different capabilities like star fox back in the day. If you need more of {X} you get the $12 chip, no wifi? $6 chip

This is what I have been on the watch for ever since the raspberry pi compute module came out for much more than I was expecting. The computer is no longer the expensive part, the display is.

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Re:“Chip.” $9 computer, faster/smaller than a Raspberry Pi by pantalaimon on Friday May 08, 2015 @06:34AM (#9510837)

There are many applications where you don't need HDMI.

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