Users should have their hands on Intel’s Galileo computer within two weeks

Intel’s open-source Galileo computer aimed at hardware hackers and the do-it-yourself crowd has started shipping to distributors and will be available to the public in two weeks.

“Boards should be available for purchase from select distributors in the U.S. and Europe within the next 2 weeks, with others coming online thereafter,” Claudine Mangano, an Intel spokeswoman, said Monday via email.

Galileo is a computing board that is a little larger than a credit card and comes without a case. The computer uses Intel’s extremely low-power Quark processor, and is targeted at a community of hardware hackers and hobbyists who make computing devices such as home electronics, health monitors, robots and media centers.

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