 Okay, I just received the $9 chip computer from a next thing company in the mail I like pre-ordered this Kickstarter like a year ago. So I'm very excited. I got a Raspberry Pi here just to Compare size and stuff, but let's go ahead and open this up Okay, what do we got here? Oh Or yes, I think they allowed me to order two so I did order two So I got two of the chip computers and then I also ordered the HDMI Because I figured why not okay, and so let's go ahead and so far a little bit smaller than a Raspberry Pi Let's go ahead. It's got the little chip logo on here Very excited to see if this thing is any good. Oh look at that. It came with audio video cables I thought it said it wasn't going to so that's that's a little bonus right there I didn't think I was gonna be getting Let's say assuming that's in both boxes, so It's nice little chip logo there Pink little audio video. That's great. So I'll test those out as well as the HDMI plug here Adapter, so let's go ahead and see what this looks like here nice little phone here and There is oh nice little pink logo. I guess pink is their color and This is just a add-on board to add HDMI so for those of you who are not familiar the chip computer is a $9 computer Plus $5 shipping, so it's you know shipping at least to the United States in Canada I know they had different shipping issues other places, but $15 total you can get one of these computers And it has a half a gig of RAM, I don't remember the other specs off the top of my head But definitely much cheaper than Raspberry Pi not as powerful as a Raspberry Pi and as you've already seen it has These composite plugs you have one plug here just like the newer Raspberry Pi's where the older Raspberry Pi's had the larger yellow Composite for video and then it had the eighth inch jack for audio This has eighth inch jack Like news rat raspberry pies for both the audio video, but the audio plug on this supposedly is also a microphone plug, which is great That's one of the things I'm pretty sure Raspberry Pi is only output, and I really wish I had inputs for microphone stuff So that's great. It's great that it came with these cables. I was not expecting that and You know, it doesn't it only has one Standard USB plug one micro which is for power and OTG so you can hook it up to a computer and actually Access it directly through that which is great something that's As far as I know you can't do with a raspberry Pi So you can actually and it has four gigs of flash memory built-in so no SD card And also has Wi-Fi built-in It's nice. It doesn't come with a case, but the bottom it does have a little bottom case thing was not expecting that so that is great So You know, there's a plug here that looks like it's a power plug. I was pretty sure that it would power Through USB. We'll look into that in a moment So yeah, so it has Wi-Fi built-in four gigs of storage. I believe it already has Debian installed on it And only one USB port audio video input and output right there And then again, if you want HDMI It was an extra 15 bucks for this, but even 15 bucks plus the 10 bucks and then you know splitting the shipping So so we'll say 30 bucks all together. It's still cheaper than a raspberry Pi again Not as powerful, especially compared to the newer raspberry pies But when you think about the cost of raspberry Pi, which is going to be $35 plus the shipping Plus you need an SD card which this already has the flash memory built-in. It does Not have an expansion slot that I'm aware of But four gigs is plenty built in could use the USB here for more storage but you figure SD card and Like here I have the USB Wi-Fi adapter don't need that on here so that that frees up You one of your USB ports there anyway So again, not nearly as powerful specs wise as the raspberry Pi and then again the HDMI is separate especially if you don't care about that HDMI $10 $9 plus $5 shipping and if you order more than one Shipping is somewhat combined. I believe So if you're buying a few of them definitely definitely cheaper than a raspberry Pi and again it's a full next computer GPIO pins here and You know they have connection boards. They even have a little portable chip companions or something I think it's called where it's a touch screen or not touch screen It's a keyboard and screen and battery pack that this plugs into making it a portable tablet basically That was I want to say 60 or 70 bucks. That's why I didn't order that So yeah, so I got two of these and again, I'm very happy. They gave me these Again, I got the HDMI just in case I felt like I needed it, but this would be great Because one of the things I think I might use this for is an arcade cabinet and I'll probably be using our CA plugs for that so That's it. This is just an unboxing wanted to show it to you. Let's go ahead and see which way does this connect I don't know. I'll have to look. I don't know if it's supposed to go this way or that way Because it'll fit in both ways So I'll have to look up instructions on that, but basically this board sits on top of there And you know what? It's gonna go the other way because I think the HDMI plug will hit the USB port there. So there we go. It probably goes like that. You also notice that there is no Ethernet. That's gonna be like the biggest drawback if you ask me because sometimes it's nice to just plug right in and be up and going But since it has Bluetooth built in Not a huge deal because you're more likely to not Bluetooth a Wi-Fi. It has Wi-Fi built in It's also really nice how it's labeled here on the side all the pins that one's five volts three volts, you know, so The the pin layout is already on the board there. Well, don't want to pull this apart without breaking it. Okay Anyway, I'll do that gently here in a moment So it's great, you know, I like that, you know, they're female connectors rather than male connectors I don't know how that how you feel about that. I think it's great. They're all labeled right like that That's really nice so far. I'm very happy with this But haven't turned it on yet. So let's go ahead and in the next video We'll go ahead and turn it on and get connected to a network and see how things are working Thank you for watching. So this is an unboxing. I don't think I've ever done an unboxing before For the most part, I don't understand why people do unboxings, but they seem to be very popular So I figure since this is my new channel on hardware stuff I figure I do unboxing at this since it came in today We're gonna be looking at this over the next couple of weeks and then getting into some more microcontrollers You know, I have Some projects coming up. They're gonna be a lot more hardware related, but this is definitely something that's gonna be handy in the future Great price. I mean you really can't beat that $9 $15 total if you just buying one Wi-Fi 4 gigs built in Definitely definitely gonna have some fun with that So be sure to subscribe if you haven't already also check out my first channel You can watch videos from both my channels and search through them at filmsbychrist.com That's Chris of the K. 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