Samsung has started shipping its first Artik developer board, hoping it will find a place in  robots, drones, wearables and a whole range of connected devices in the Internet of Things.

The Artik 5, which looks like the Raspberry Pi 2, is an uncased computer with all the components mashed into a small circuit board. It is available for $99 from Digi-Key.

It is the first board to ship out of the three Artik development boards announced last May. The two not yet available are the minuscule Artik 1, which is for wearables, and the larger Artik 10, which could be the guts of PCs, robots or even portable servers.

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