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Don't Want to Spend Those Extra $5 on a Latte? Buy a Computer

  • Raspberry Pi's new credit-card sized Zero model goes on sale
  • Version aimed at those who found previous $25 model too pricey
The Raspberry Pi Zero.
Source: Raspberry Pi

A British non-profit is offering a new way to spend that $5 change in your pocket: buy a computer.

Raspberry Pi, as the maker of credit-card sized computers is called, today released the Raspberry Pi Zero in the U.K. and the U.S. With the new version, made in Wales, the manufacturer went “from the cost of four lattes to the cost of one latte," founder Eben Upton said in a video published on the foundation’s website Thursday.