Check out the possibilities, from the Raspberry Pi (a single-board computer) to littleBits (electronic Legos).
So why all the fuss about a humble, single-board computer?
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We were also shown a Tegra single-board computer measuring no larger than a single small-outline DIMM like you'd find in a modern laptop, proof that this action can be scaled way down depending on the kinds of devices manufacturers are looking to make.
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"We do our best to make a flight with Austrian a high-level experience, which is why we have one chef on board of every single long-haul flight, " says Braun.
In the Isles of Scilly rescue, the sailor was on board a single-handed racing yacht.
It also uses a tether and can stay aloft for 12-hours on a single ground-station battery, letting it spy from afar with on-board HD, night-vision and thermal cameras.
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The Voodoo 4 4500 PCI video accelerator board will feature a single VSA-100 chip, a fill rate of 333-367 megapixels per second and 32M bytes of video memory.
Aereo uses specially designed equipment that crams 80 dime-sized TV antennas on a single circuit board and stores programming that users can access by logging in to a website.
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The inductor-free, single-stage design delivers the industry's highest system efficiency and saves up to 60-percent board space compared to a multi-stage implementation.
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In a nod to its concerned-parents origins, the JDRF is said to be the only large single-illness nonprofit to use a 100% lay board to help review grant proposals.
The co-op proposition squeaked by the UC board with a single vote to spare.
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Large companies in the UK generally have a single board of directors, made up of executives and non-executives.
Everything from the 120MHz Cortex-M3 MCU to the three-axis accelerometer and the Bluetooth radio was on a single board.
It uses four Rockwell 56-kbps V.90 modem chips on one board, and connects using a single PCI bus.
Yet despite the recent rise in wages across the board, and despite the massive rise in federal assistance, many poor single wage-earners have still not been able to lift their families out of poverty.
His own reforms, such as introducing a simplified, single-rate foreign-exchange mechanism, private banks and mobile phones, remain on the drawing-board.
Optimized for customers in oil and gas exploration and the defense industry, a single Tesla K10 accelerator board features two GK104 Kepler GPUs that deliver an aggregate performance of 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth.
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