Raspberry Pi, Anyone ?

摘要

With the cost of most things continually on the rise, it is pleasing to note the price of our intelligent gadgets and that of compute power continues to fall. The cost of computing power dropped again with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi (RPi) - an ARM processor based Linux workstation the size of a credit card . This computing marvel was developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation (a UK registered charity) with the idea of getting students interested in computer science by making it cheap enough for anyone to afford, and fun enough to capture their interest. The Raspberry Pi Foundation understands computers and programming are integral to the future, but noticed fewer students getting into computer science. With the RPi, they hope to rekindle the excitement over microprocessors that many of us felt in the 1970s and 1980s. I, for one, caught the computer bug at that time and haven't ever gotten over it.