The Raspberry Pi has recently been released. It is a working computer which can run linux, is very very small, and very cheap. This is a very popular piece of equipment and with only a limited number available and demand spiking at 700per second it may be quite hard to get my hands on one.
This piece of technology is really exciting as it would allow me to have computational power within an object. It is able to run of battery power so using this I would be able to have a wireless object which could communicate with a web based service.
Another micro computer is the Arduino. This is not a fully working computer but a device which lets you have real world inputs and outputs.
Connecting an Arduino with a raspberry pi quickly opens up a large amount of possibilities for creating interactive objects. You can control an Arduino with processing which has a good community for support. I also found Element 14 which is a community of people interested in computer science. I am anxious that building an interactive object of this sort requires quite a few skills which I do not have so it seems quite ambitious.
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