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engelsted
2016-07-15 , 16:20
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I think
this
may lead to future FOSS-friendly N900-style devices.
It's a crowdfunding campaign for the first products that follow the new EOMA-68 standard, i.e., a "computer card" and some "shells" to plug it into.
EOMA-68 will make it much simpler and thus more feasible for small communities to make products. As an example,
here's
a description of a tablet that one may be able to do as a single-sided 2-layer PCB.
More details about the crowdfunding campaign:
http://rhombus-tech.net/crowdsupply/
The EOMA-68 standard:
http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modu...ecture/EOMA-68
The computer cards reuse the legacy PCMCIA form factor. For size comparison, I've attached some photos of a random PCMCIA card and my N900. Imagine upgrading your future N900-style device with a new CPU/GPU/memory combo by simply swapping cards such as this.
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