The Raspberry Pi $35 computer is set to hit UK shelves at the end of February and it’s tiny. The credit card-sized chip is equipped with a USB port to plug into a compatible television, transforming it into a PC.

The idea for the PC came when Eben Upton, a lecturer at Cambridge University and one of the developers, noticed a drop in the skill level of students applying to study computer science, he found the typical applicants had only web experience and very little of programming.

Primarily made for kids, the tiny computer can be used to perform similar functions as a desktop, like word-processing, spreadsheets, games and will also act as a streaming device if paired with a dongle. The charitable developers who created it would like to see it used for education in computer programming.

The tiny PC will run on the Fedora operating system, but could be replaced with Linux and could have the potential to run on Android in the future

The computer was supposed to be ready for the UK market by the end of January, but this proved impossible due to a sourcing issue involving the quartz crystal that the company planned to use.

The Raspberry Pi will initially only be available through raspberrypi.com and initially orders will be limited to just one per person. The company also plan to implement a buy-one-give-one policy.

Raspberry Pi is currently working on educational software in a hope to promote more computer programming in schools.