RaspberryPi Foundation is used to Cultivate Young Programmers

Published:2011/9/1 4:07:00 Author:Li xiao na From:SeekIC

The RaspberryPi Foundation is built to put computers in front of children for £15, has taken delivery of 50 engineering prototypes. The final version will be released at the end of this year. The foundation is expected to cure the programmer shortage by inspiring people to take up computing in childhood.

The Debian Linux is booted on the Alpha hardware. Ubuntu is the Linux flavour favoured by RaspberryPi, but it looks like hardware resource greed is ruling it out for the moment in favour of DebianThe 50 ‘Alpha’ boards are around 20% larger than the intended final board which is likely to be the size of a credit card.

In order to validate the schematic, it is electrically identical to the final board, but has six layers rather than four and uses expensive blind and buried vias. The computer of the original plan looks like a flash stick. While the circuit will still fit in that size, the number of IO connectors found necessary has caused the shift to credit card size. Alpha has an RJ45 network jack, dual USB, digital TV via HDMI, analogue TV through an RCA socket, plus analogue audio and a power socket.

The product can be plugged into DVI monitors, HDMI TVs, old analogue TVs, therefore, the television will turn into a computer. Graphics and video processing, had initially to remain a secret are included in the source of the 700MHz ARM-based application processor. Game is regarded as the bait for the young generations.

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