@Joseph Armbruster, you should have changed the subject line to
something more appropriate. (I just did that.)
The [WikiReader] tag indicated that the thread relates to the
WikiReader, a different Openmoko product, not the open source smart
phone most people talk about here. Some people will see that tag in the
subject line and ignore your message.
You might also want to post your message in another list,
gta04-ow...@goldelico.com, which is more specifically targeted to the GTA04.
On 05/23/2013 02:38 PM, Joseph Armbruster wrote:
Everyone,
So I have been reading up on the GTA04 here:
http://projects.goldelico.com/p/gta04-main/page/Manual/
Has anyone on the list printed a board, purchased parts, assembled the hardware
and built the software stack themselves?
I am interested in doing exactly this.
If you have experience with this, please contact me off of the list.
Joseph Armbruster
On May 23, 2013, at 5:19 PM, Doug Jones wrote:
I just got an email from Sean recommending this:
http://igg.me/at/wikireaders4kids/x/3095893
It's a non-profit campaign to give WikiReaders to thousands of kids. Sean is
supporting the project, and is helping the organizers to get the best possible
purchase price.
I am signing up too. Very laudable goals.
But reading between the lines, this looks like it may represent the end-of-life
for this excellent OpenMoko device. If the hardware manufacturer has 10,000
units in overstock, of a product that was released years ago, then they may not
be interested in ever making any more of these. And if the wikireaders4kids
campaign succeeds, all existing stock may vanish from the marketplace.
So this may be your last opportunity to buy a WikiReader (although I expect
used ones may be available for a long time). You can get them by pledging to
that campaign, or for $14.99 on Amazon, or other places as mentioned at the
bottom of this page:
http://www.thewikireader.com/
I also see that new content has recently become available for the WikiReader:
http://thewikireader.com/languagepacks.php
I see that the codebase is still being actively updated:
https://github.com/wikireader/wikireader
I think it would be a shame if this beautiful machine really does go out of
manufacture, never to be updated again. Wouldn't it be great if this design
could be released as open hardware...
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