The Raspberry Foundation has launched a new Raspberry Pis PI ZERO, which is only $ 5, but you may not know that Google is behind this.
In January 2013, Ren You Bo Chairman Eric Schmidt accidentally marked the founder EBEN Upton of the Non-profit Organization Raspberry Foundation. The Raspberry Foundation will give up the original development plan - they plan to develop a more expensive board. At the same time, the foundation has won a huge amount of giant donation from Google and will send this programmable Raspberry PC to 15,000 students.
When the event was announced, Schmidt happened to be in the UK, he wanted to know the next plan of the Raspberry Foundation.
Eben Upton, founder of the Raspberry Foundation, said: "I told him that we were considering the development of a new and more expensive Raspberry Pie, the price would probably be 50-60 US dollars, and performance will be more powerful." Mr. Schmidt said that it is wrong, and tells the founder of the founder to put the target on a low-cost computer as much as possible.
Mr. Upton said: "He said that it is difficult to compete with it. He gave a very convincing reason. That is a conversation to change life. Our idea is to achieve stronger in the same price. Performance and reach a lower price in the same performance. "
So, when this year, the foundation finally launched the next generation of Raspberry Pivot 2, it is more powerful than the performance of the last generation of the Raspberry Pist, but the price is the same, still $ 35.
The day before yesterday, after three years with Eric Schmidt, Upton's team finally launched the cheapest product: selling price of $ 5 Raspberry Pie: Pi Zero.
Strictly speaking, Pi Zero is not a complete computer, which uses the same Broadcom BCM2835 1GHz processor as the Raspberry Pie, with 512MB RAM. In addition, ZERO also supports the Micro SD storage slot, and the Mini-HDMI interface supports 1080p / 60fps output, and supports MicroSB interface to transfer data and charging. With 40-pin GPIO, users can use these interfaces to connect various external devices, such as Sensors, motors and other computers. It can run the Raspberry Furnet Based on the open source operating system Raspbian development based on Linux. This device can also play an important role in the Internet of Things applications - such as the smart gate control. In addition, Pi Zero's specifications are only 65 × 30 × 5 mm, which is the smallest raspberry secta so far.
It is understood that the foundation plans to distribute 10,000 pi zero free of charge with its own "The Magpie" magazine in December.
The 20,000 PI ZERO produced by Sony in a factory plant in South Wales has been completely sold in the local time. The order of the UK and the US distributors are influent like floods. Upton said that he would not reveal the cost of the single board, but he said: "I will not lose money on this."
After running, this small computer can be used to play Minecraft and Scratch programming educational games. In addition, it can also be used in a wide variety of control processing tasks, such as the DIY music player and robot, of course, can also play a role in home automation, or even use it.
Below we simply count the sales of the Raspberry Sending products:
Raspberry Part 1: In February 2012, 4.5 million units have been sold.
Raspberry Part 2: In February 2015, it has sold 2.5 million to 3 million units as of October. "Sales are accelerating, this year is very important for us."
Eben Upton said: "We really think that we can't do it more cheaper than this. You can do this, 4 cups of latte than a cup of latte, we can't drop the cost to a cup of latte. "He also said that Mr. Schmidt has not seen Pi Zero," I don't want to bother him. "
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