Raspberry Pi Gets A New Camera
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The Raspberry Pi, the low-cost, barebones Linux mini-computer aimed at helping kids acquire programming skills, now has its own camera module. The tiny, stamp-sized module, which...
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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced that its $25 Model A computer is now available for purchase in the United States through the electronics reseller Allied Electronics. The model A is a ten dollar price cut from Raspberry Pi’s original Model B mini computer. While it doesn’t come close to rivaling Apple design standards, being essentially little more than a circuit board with a few basic hardware components attached, the...
Michael Harper for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced yesterday they will finally be able to make good on a promise made when they first began selling credit card-sized computers: They will now begin selling one of their Raspberry Pi pocket computers for $25. This cheaper model – simplistically dubbed the Model A – is nothing more than a stripped down Model B with only one USB port, no onboard ethernet port, and only 256 megabytes of RAM....
BALTIMORE, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: SBGI) announced that Mr. Michael Simon has been hired as Director of Advanced Technology for Sinclair Television Group. The announcement was made by Mr. Mark Aitken, Vice President of Advanced Technology for Sinclair. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100119/PH39783LOGO ) In making the announcement, Mr. Aitken said, "Development of Next Generation Broadcast Television standards and...
Enid Burns for RedOrbit.com With the first shipment of Raspberry Pi computers, a new wave of computer programming may just be born. A group of schoolchildren in Leeds, U.K. will be the first to get a batch of the tiny computers, followed by fulfillment of the first orders by April 20. Raspberry Pi is a programmable PC built on a motherboard the size of a credit card. It's built on the ARM GNU, Linux open source operating system and has a price tag of between $25 (for model A) and $35...
SHANGHAI, April 12, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Acorn International, Inc. (NYSE: ATV) ("Acorn" or the "Company"), a leading integrated multi-platform marketing company in China engaged in developing, promoting and selling consumer products and services through extensive distribution network, today announced that Mr. Daniel Wu has resigned from the Company's board of directors due to personal reasons, effective April 8, 2010. Mr. Wu confirmed that there is no disagreement between...
CHICAGO, March 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- element14, a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics enthusiasts, and modding guru Benjamin J. Heckendorn, a.k.a. Ben Heck, incorporate the old with the new as Ben combines a 1977 Atari console with an Xbox 360(TM) laptop system in the latest episode of "The Ben Heck Show." (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110321/CG65861) (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110216/CG49295LOGO) In...
SHANGHAI, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia-Firstcall/ -- Acorn International, Inc. (NYSE: ATV) ("Acorn" or the "Company"), a leading integrated multi-platform marketing company in China engaged in developing, promoting and selling consumer products and services through extensive distribution network, will release its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010 before the market opens on Tuesday, March 15, 2011. A copy of the earnings release will be available on the...
SHANGHAI, Nov. 12, 2010 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Acorn International, Inc. (NYSE: ATV) ("Acorn" or the "Company"), a leading integrated multi-platform marketing company in China engaged in developing, promoting and selling consumer products and services through an extensive distribution network, will release its financial results for the third quarter 2010 before the market opens on Tuesday, November 23, 2010. A copy of the earnings release will be available on the Company's website...
SHANGHAI, Oct. 25 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Acorn International, Inc. (NYSE: ATV) ("Acorn International" or the "Company"), a leading integrated multi-platform marketing company in China engaged in developing, promoting and selling consumer products and services through an extensive distribution network, today announced resolutions adopted at its annual general meeting of shareholders held in Shanghai on October 22, 2010. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20090811/CNTU028LOGO)...
MONTCHANIN, Del., May 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Acorn Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACFN), an energy technology holding company, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of GridSense Pty. Ltd., increasing its ownership to 100%. The terms include cash and Acorn stock. "Acorn believes the most serious and present danger to the developed world's electric grid is the aging distribution system. GridSense has worked with utilities for the past thirty years to become a leader in the...
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The ColecoVision is a home game console produced by Coleco Industries and released in August 1982. Nintendo’s Donkey Kong was licensed to Coleco to be the official game pack cartridge with all ColecoVision consoles. By the end of 1982, more than 500,000 units were sold. Outside the United States, the console was sold as CBS ColecoVision. By early 1983 over one million total units were sold; but by the beginning of 1984 sales dramatically declined. By the summer of 1985 Coleco withdrew...
