Educational Technology

May 20, 2011

A nonprofit thinks small: a $25 computer the size of a thumb

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:30 am

by Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor

British game developer David Braben is showing off a working prototype of a tiny, thumb-sized computer that he says can be sold at $25 per unit. The nonprofit group Raspberry Pi is aiming the inexpensive device at less affluent school children and others who would benefit from having an ultra-small, ultra-cheap computer available to them. In an announcement on its website Raspberry Pi explained: “We plan to develop, manufacture, and distribute an ultra-low-cost computer, for use in teaching computer programming to children. We expect this computer to have many other applications both in the developed and the developing world.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2011/0509/A-nonprofit-thinks-small-a-25-computer-the-size-of-a-thumb

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