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REDWOOD CITY, Calif., April 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of Linux computers-on-modules (COMs) for electronics manufacturers, today announced two additions to its lines of products. The new TidalSTORM COM upgrades the Overo series to 1GB RAM: twice the memory, enabling significantly better performance. The award-winning DuoVero COM now offers wireless functionality on the Zephyr, using a Wi2Wi module for 802.11 b/g/n WiFi and Bluetooth. (Photo:...

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...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of Linux® computers-on-module for electronics manufacturers, today announced its new class of single-board computer products. Pepper, related to the popular Gumstix Overo line of computer-on-modules (COMs), uses the Sitara(TM) AM3359 ARM® Cortex(TM)-A8 processor from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) and 512MB of DDR2 to provide Gigabit Ethernet in the form-factor of the popular Chestnut43...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of Linux computers-on-module (COMs) for electronics manufacturers, today announced the release of Geppetto, a complete system for building and ordering custom embedded computers without the need for extensive knowledge of electrical engineering. Geppetto combines a powerful web application for easy design with Gumstix' own manufacturing capabilities, reducing the process of creating an...

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....

SAN JOSE, Calif., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of Linux computers-on-module for electronics manufacturers, is pleased to announce a significant price reduction to its Overo STORM line of Computer-On-Modules (COMs). Introduced in December 2011, the Overo STORM introduced increased clock speeds with the Sitara(TM) AM3703 ARM® Cortex(TM)-A8 and DM3730 DaVinci(TM) video processors from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). Featuring prices reduced as...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online An adolescent has found a way to turn a Raspberry Pi computer into a time-lapse camera, earning him a $1,000 cash prize. Aaron Hill, a 12-year-old boy, wrote a piece of software called PySnap to take first prize in the 13 and under category of the Raspberry Pi summer coding contest. The software allows Pi owners to connect a USB camera to the device and fine-tune the interval at which it takes pictures. The Raspberry Pi is...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Gumstix, Inc., the premier provider of tiny computers-on-module (COM) and expansion boards for electronic devices, today introduced the DuoVero(TM) Crystal COM, the first in its new series of modules based on the OMAP4430 processor from Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI). This next-generation COM, powered by TI's smart multicore processor, gives electronic designers the same core technology that powers today's advanced smartphones,...