Today, they uncovered their progress on Kickstarter, giving away a development board called Chip at $9.
The board is Open Hardware and and is capable of running on any Linux-based operating system.
It is powered by a 1Ghz A13 processor.
It has a 512MB of RAM and a storage capacity of 4GB.
It is equivalent to the BeagleBone Black in clock speed, RAM and storage.
It is more powerful than the Raspberry Pi B+.
Chip comes with a dozen of apps pre-installed that includes games and a web web app.
One should thank the inexpensive Chinese tablets for the invention of this cheap Chip.
This is not the first product Next Thing has offered on Kickstarter.
This led them to enroll in and successfully complete HAXLR8R in the year 2014.
Its ability to attract 414 backers and raise $71,559 was an achievement.
But more importantly, they have manufactured and are in the process of fulfilling rewards to backers.
Undoutedly, any crowdfunding campaign is not without risk.
Trying to reestablish the cost of development boards is not likely to go unseen by larger players.
Chip is near reality.
Though it uses the older A13, there is a working prototype.
If they pull this off, theres a great deal of potential for the community, says Rauchwerk.
Success for us is them seeing what weve done and being excited about it and backing it.
source: www.techworm.net
