Latinoware 2012

The time when having a computer was only for the elite is gone. At Latinoware 2012, speaker Claudimir Zavalik (à direita) will show participants details of the Raspberry Pi project, a single board computer marketed from US$ 25. One of the product’s differentials is the absence of a hard disk, with data and operating system storage (Debian, Fedora or Arch Linux) on SD cards.

According to Zavalik, the Project first came up at Cambridge University – in the United Kingdom – from the need to create a low cost hardware platform for applications in education. “The first 100 units were manufactured in December 2011. In January 2012, the foundation opened the sale of 10 thousand units manufactured in China and sold out in just 15 minutes”.

Together with Ankesh Sharma, Claudimir will present the resources and examples of Raspberry Pi with Linux. According to the speaker, the model is being marketed but, due to the huge demand, the orders are taking quite a while to be delivered. Curious about the details of the model? Check out the complete configuration:

• Broadcom BCM2835 700MHz ARM1176JZFS processor with FPU and Videocore 4 GPU
• GPU provides Open GL ES 2.0, hardware-accelerated OpenVG, and 1080p30 H.264 high-profile decode
• GPU is capable of 1Gpixel/s, 1.5Gtexel/s or 24GFLOPs with texture filtering and DMA infrastructure
• 256MB RAM
• Boots from SD card, running a version of the Linux operating system
• 10/100 BaseT Ethernet socket
• HDMI socket
• USB 2.0 socket
• RCA video socket
• SD card socket
• Powered from microUSB socket
• 3.5mm audio out jack
• Size: 85.6 x 53.98 x 17mm