Computer of a Credit Card Size

There was a time when computers were large enough to accommodate in a large hall. There were hundreds of vacuum tubes, specially designed cooling system, many engineers and other staff. Thanks to advancement in technology that now our computer can sit on a small desk. We even have an option of laptops, notebooks and even tablets. All these gadgets have enough processing resources to cater our needs.

Now there is news that future computers will be Credit Card Size. You can take 100GB’s of storage, Many GHz of processing power in your pocket. Interestingly there is computer of Credit Card size that exists now. Yes, you can buy a credit card size computer now. And don’t worry about its price; it will cost you $10 approximately.

The afore-said computer is commonly known as Raspberry Pi. It is most widely used feature rich, compact size computer. It is very famous in engineering students and enthusiastic, as variety of tasks can be accomplished with it. There are various models and designs of Raspberry Pi. You can use this hardware to create Gameboy emulator, Tiny Cameras, Access Control Systems, Portable data entry Systems and many more.

 

Following is the brief description of Raspberry Pi 2:

 

1. A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
2. 1GB RAM
3. 4 USB ports
4. 40 GPIO pins
5. Full HDMI port
6. Ethernet port
7. Combined 3.5mm audio jack and composite video
8. Camera interface (CSI)
9. Display interface (DSI)
10. Micro SD card slot
11. VideoCore IV 3D graphics core
12. ARMv7 processor, capable to run the full range of ARM GNU/Linux distributions as well as Microsoft Windows 10.