I'm Dave this is next thing company and
we are announcing the world's first $9
computer chip so this is chip on the
front side you see the chip logo on the
back side you'll see all the components
that make it possible there's a USB port
full-size a micro USB port with USB
on-the-go support a eighth inch jack
that has composite video out speaker out
and microphone name it has built-in
Wi-Fi 8002 11 B G and n Bluetooth 4.0 4
gigs of nand flash storage and a 1
gigahertz all winner a 13 based
processor chip is nine dollars because
we worked very closely with the
manufacturer of the system on chip
that's used to build it all winner and
we are going to roughly the source that
means what we can sell it through a very
low price it runs any Linux based
distribution the distribution that we
are building and supporting with chip is
Debian based out-of-the-box chip can
connect over composite video so you can
use an old TV or a tiny screen that you
have you can plug into pocket chip and
use that display or we made these VGA
and we also have an HDMI shield right
there and they snap on to pocket chip or
actually on chip chip just like this put
it backwards so they snap together it'll
click and now it has a VGA port on it
and similarly do the same thing with an
HDMI desper 20 is for higher res the
HDMI shield is $15 the VGA shield is $10
so this is a this is an early prototype
of pocket chip it's turned on right now
it has a battery built into it when it
ships for real but we have this little
make battery pack though one of the guys
has we use the power at the moment it
makes chip portable so you can insert
chip into pocket chip and then you can
use the chip anywhere the goal for the
chip is to give anyone who wants a nine
dollar computer access to one and that
to make a tool for people to make
computer-based projects and to make
building things with computers as easy
and accessible as possible
next thing company is a team of artists
engineers designers hackers we're here
to make stuff and to help people make
stuff
and you know in the past that meant
making hackable cameras and now it means
making the most affordable fastest and
smallest computer built for projects the
first privately released was about a
year ago was called Auto hackable
animated gif camera ship will launch on
Kickstarter May 7th which if you're
watching this is probably today chip is
nine dollars it's really powerful it's
really tiny but the other thing that
we're really excited about is is
completely open-source and that means
you can download the schematics you can
change chip you can figure out how it
works and make it do whatever you want
and it also means that somebody else can
make their own chip and we're really
excited about what the community can do
and the board that powers your project
is completely open-source and we need
the community's help to make it as good
as it can possibly be
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