--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68
On Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 5:59 PM Paul Boddie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Good to see another update: > > https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/new-factory-equipment-new-grant-proposal > > I hope Mike is bearing up in the face of his recent difficulties. With regard > to your funding proposal [1], I see that you wish to revive the other computer > cards, they were only paused because continuing to put R&D money into them would mean that fulfilling the campaign promises would have been jeapordised. > Although things like the StereoPi have developers as their audience, and so it > doesn't really bother people that bare boards and edge connectors are the > basis of modularity, it would be nice to be able to pitch EOMA68 (and related > profile) products for these kinds of things. But these kinds of campaigns do > help to demonstrate the case for EOMA68 and modular computing. yes very much. > Another thing that I noticed was in perusing the Dingoonity forums, where > there is a fairly active forum about Ingenic-based handheld devices: > > https://boards.dingoonity.org/ingenic-jz4760-devices/ which reminds me, to contact the guy who was doing the hand-held games console. the last time i spoke to him, i learned that, unfortunately, the person who had designed the case wanted to keep it proprietary. > Again, EOMA68 would be a good way of enabling products for this market. People > seem to end up chasing discontinued products and settling for random imports, > often being disappointed with some aspect of them or other, plus the software > is not exactly responsibly produced, either. yes, basically, EOMA68 is about reducing the barriers. thanks paul. l. _______________________________________________ arm-netbook mailing list [email protected] http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook Send large attachments to [email protected]
