US electronics firm The Next Tghing Co. has launched a Kickstarter campaign for the world’s first $9 computer.
Currently seeking funding on Kickstarter, C.H.I.P. is a tiny, super-cheap, surprisingly powerful computer.
C.H.I.P. packs a 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, 4GB of storage, and has built-in WiFi and Bluetooth.
The tiny computer runs mainline Linux, and thus can access thousands of open source apps such as LibreOffice, Chromium, and more. It’s also only $9 — putting the $35 Raspberry Pi 2 to shame.
C.H.I.P.’s creators asked for a modest $50,000 on Kickstarter, but the crowdfunding campaign has already raised more than $700,000 in five days.
The first run of barebones C.H.I.P.s will head to backers in December of this year, with the full run expected to ship in May 2016.
View the kickstarter campaign here
