After playing with the BananaPi recently, the CHIP computer made by Next Thing Co. is pretty tempting at $9 for a computer that can surf the web and run basic programs.

Best of all, it’s totally open-source, so you can view the PCB schematics and Bill of Materials if you want to build one yourself!

Specs:

• 1GHz processing power
• 512MB DDR3 RAM
• 4GB storage built in (you can add more storage via USB Flash drive)
• Bluetooth 4.0
• WiFi (B/G/N)
• Composite video out (optional adapters for HDMI / VGA)
• I2C / SPI / UART / GPIO x8
• Battery use and charging

It’s kickstarting for several more weeks at http://kck.st/1H3QfZj