CHIP, the 9 dollars mini-computer

Picture and some specs of CHIP (source: Kickstarter.com)

What is CHIP ?

CHIP is a card-sized computer that can run ″real″ operating systems and is released at the small price of 9$. For 49$, you can have the Pocket Chip in addition, which allows you to use CHIP everywhere with 3,000 mAH battery (5 hours estimated autnomy), 4.3" 470px x 272px screen, QWERTY keyboard and GPIO breakouts, all of this in a pocket size.

Picture of Pocket CHIP (source: Kickstarter.com)

What is CHIP made of ?

CHIP has a SoC (System on chip) R8, from chinese constructor Allwinner, that features a one-heart processor (ARM Cortex-A8 technology) with a maximum clock speed of 1 GHz and a ARM Mali-400 graphics processor.

It also features 512 MB of DDR3 RAM, 4 GB of internal flash memory, a Realtek chip that adds Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi a/b/g/n support, a USB port and a composite video output.
To mount more components, you can use its multiple inputs/ouputs : GPIO, I2C, SPI and UART.
Regarding power supply, it has a battery connector or you can use the micro USB.

If you want to help this project, contribute on Kickstarter by clicking here.