[SGVHAK] Open Hardware, Crowd Funded "Laptop", ARM with FPGA

[Tux Lab]

I think this was mentioned in the irc.  There's minnowboard.   $99 for
the single core 1.46 Atom or $129 for the dual core 1.33.

http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/

In addition to the usual RJ45, USB, microHDMI, the description list a
60-pin, high-density connector with  1x PCIe Gen 2.0 Lane, 1x SATA2
3Gb/sec, 1x USB 2.0 host, I2C, GPIO, JTAG, +5V, GND.

The release date is June 2014 and since it's made by CircuitCo, the
guys making BeagleBone, maybe Minnowboard will be made in the US as
well.


John


On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 8:18 PM, Braddock <braddock at braddock.com> wrote:
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> On 04/05/2014 06:06 PM, James McDuffie wrote:
>> Braddock sent a link around previously about an open hardware
>> laptop.
>
> If one was serious, the chip manufacturers usually have reference
> designs which could probably be open sourced.
>
> About 18 years ago I worked on an open source project which got
> Motorola and IBM to open source their PowerPC reference motherboard
> design, called YellowKnife and Long Trail.  The intention was to make
> an open source PPC desktop system.
>
> Not much came of it but a lot of plans and block diagrams and a
> realization that the open source PCB tools were not up to the task at
> the time (one may argue pretty strongly that they still aren't).
>
> The other realization was that making a feasible and affordable PC was
> an exercise in logistics and volume as much as engineering.  I think
> at least in that case the situation for small run production has
> improved vastly since the 1990s, and crowd funding today could
> probably tackle the capital costs.
>
> - -braddock
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