Dave Rauchwerk on creating a $9 computer

The O’Reilly Hardware Podcast: Building with components, community, and fun.

By Jon Bruner
July 19, 2016
Tree showing the evolution of computers used by the U.S. Army from the ENIAC. Tree showing the evolution of computers used by the U.S. Army from the ENIAC. (source: Martin H. Weik on Wikimedia Commons)

In this episode of the Hardware podcast, I talk with Dave Rauchwerk, founder and CEO of Next Thing Co., makers of C.H.I.P., the $9 computer.

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Rauchwerk’s click spiral: the 1992 PBS documentary mini-series “The Machine That Changed the World,” about the history of computers up to that point. It included prescient predictions, including segments on artificial intelligence and virtual reality.

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