I’m almost graduating computer engineering — I should REALLY know the answer to this question. But, just in case you don’t either, here is me finding that out.
Most of us have a preset idea of what a computer is. Different generations might think about different things, but still, we all have a general idea. Millenials might think of this:
Gen X/Z might think of this:
And yeah, sure, both of these alternatives are fine. But what if I told you that a computer can actually also look like this?
That little thing that looks like it can do ABSOLUTELY nothing, really is a computer. It’s got a CPU, a GPU, memory, a motherboard, a power source, an OS, and it can connect to a screen and keyboard to show us all that it’s got, in all of it’s tiny, microcontroller-sized glory. By the way, that one is called a Raspberry Pi.
HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN, THOUGH? Like, actually, physically happen. Honestly, it looks like it could have just been glued together in a way to look tech-y and cool.