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If you’re one of the geeks who gets giddy at the thought of getting your hands on the tiny and cheap little Raspberry Pi computer, you’ll soon have a new choice of operating system to run on the device. A Chromium OS hacker going by Hexxeh has been working the port the Chromium OS over to the Raspberry Pi board. The project is still a work in progress.

The good news is that the cheap little computer board has been approved by the official Chromium OS team to run the operating system. What that means for now is that the Chromium OS can boot on the Raspberry Pi board. That doesn’t mean the operating system is stable on the hardware though.

In fact, it could be a while before a stable version of the operating system is available for little $35 Raspberry Pi mainboard. Considering that Chromium OS is known to run considerably better on Chromebooks rocking hardware such as Intel Celeron processors and 4 GB of RAM, than it does on slower machines with Intel Atom processors and 2 GB RAM, you have to wonder how well the rather sloth-like Raspberry Pi will do with the operating system. After all, the board only has a 700 MHz ARM11 processor and 512 MB memory.

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The people behind-the-scenes at Raspberry Pi are going full steam ahead with plans to release a camera module. The innovative startup has already come out with a working prototype that can take pictures at a resolution of 14 megapixels. However, the final consumer version might have a lower resolution. The module will plug into the CSI pins that are exposed in the middle of the Raspberry Pi.

The way it will attach is through ribbon cable. The module is of course very small, which the company says makes it ideal for home automation applications or even advance robotics for those willing to take it to that level. Adding camera capabilities to an electronic device is nothing new, but this sort of takes it to the next level.

“We may downgrade the super-duperness of the camera to something with fewer than its current 14 megapixels before release; we need to keep things affordable, and a sensor of that size will end up pricey,” the company wrote in an official post on its website. There has been no announcement regarding a final consumer price or a release date, but things certainly look to be well underway.

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