Gooseberry Android board plans to sate those still waiting on a Raspberry Pi (video)

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If one of the aims of the [Raspberry Pi][3] was to embody the "do-it-yourself" [ethos][4], then it's already succeeded. Annoyed at the wait for the education-friendly board to arrive, the anonymous creator of the Gooseberry decided to build their own. Looking reasonably similar to its inspiration, it's packing a 1GHz [AllWinner][5] CPU, 400MHz Mali GPU, 512MB RAM and 4GB of onboard storage. It'll go on sale in the UK for £40 ($63) shortly, running Gingerbread and is capable of running HD video -- as demonstrated by the video we've got for you after the break.

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