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Raspberry Pi gains a touch of glass!

Sep 9, 2015

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After only one year since it was first announced, the Raspberry Pi touch display finally graced our presences on Tuesday this week. No longer do Raspberry Pi hackers have to use a separate monitor as they can now play with an official 7-inch 60 fps 800-by-480, 10 point multi-touch LCD display with a 70 degree…

CHIP the tiny computer you can pre-order for $9.00

May 11, 2015

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Sam Waldron

in Desktops, Gadget News, General Gadgets, PC’s, Software

Miniature electronics are all the rage right now, amateur hacking has led to the steep rise in popularity, the Raspberry Pi devices and Arduino boards are proof of that. There’s a new tiny computer on the block though that’s looking to dramatically undercut the competition. CHIP is the new device from Next Thing Co, and…

Raspberry Pi 2 Unleashed Unexpectedly Upon Us

Feb 2, 2015

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Ryan Wollaston

in Gadget News, Gaming, Microsoft, PC’s, Site-Sections, Windows 10

Raspberry Pi fans were not expecting the successor to the popular Raspberry Pi until around 2017, but in a shock announcement, it turns out that Raspberry Pi 2 will go on sale today (2nd Feb 2015). For a measly $35 (or £23.25) you can purchase the new and improved bigger brother to the original Pi,…

ODROID-C1 is a quad-core computer for only $35

Dec 16, 2014

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Sam Waldron

in Android, Gadget News, Linux

If you are a fan of the Raspberry, you might be interested in a new offering called the Odroid-C1, the ODROID-C1 is a credit card-sized single-board computer, this device is similar and it runs Android KitKat or Ubuntu Linux 14.04 for the operating system, but the ODROID-C1 is much more powerful. The ODROID-C1 is packing…

MIPS Creator CI20 Mini PC Available Now For $65

Dec 5, 2014

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Stewart Matthews

in Gadget News, General Gadgets, PC’s, Site-Sections

The massive success of the Raspberry Pi proved there is a valuable market for the low-cost, low-powered computers aimed at the developer and general enthusiast. And since the release of the Raspberry Pi, there have been a handful of companies attempting to replicate the same sort of success. Two years after the initial release of…