Sorry about this but I had another thought on this subject after the T-Shirt thread. This one might be a bit less "easy" ;-)
Hats off to OM for producing Open Hardware for programmers to create their ideas on. It's has been a noble effort and I hope it continues. I was thinking that the choice of Open Platform (Mobile Phone) was perhaps one of the most difficult choices that they could have made as very little Open software existed out there when they started. There are a lot of imaginative people in the community and in the fullness of time this is going to be brilliant. I was thinking that one possible area where an open platform is needed is The Console. I've heard of a lot of people getting the original Microsoft xBox to hack it so that they can run unsigned code in the box. They then run XBMC in it. It seems such a shame that you have to buy a M$ games console to run an open source Media Centre. Along the same lines a few years ago I spent months trying get MythTV running in an old Desktop to enable me to record TV. What can I say I never quite made it. Now to my knowledge the original xBox was not too far removed from a regular PC in nice plastics. It had TV out instead of a regular monitor connection. That is perhaps an an area of difficulty as perhaps different countries run different TV protocols. Anyhow some day I'd like to put together some hardware that could run MythTV, XBMC maybe have a huge Terabyte of storage and act as a file server as well. Maybe it could run Linux games as well and various emulators. Yes what Linux games ;-) So you'd have a PC Motherboard, TV out don't know what standard. Do all modern TV's take the same digital connection all over the world? Then you'll have a TV in signal for recording TV. Again I've no idea if that would mean different hardware all over the world. Ethernet, USB, Remote control. Nice plastics. A few companies have toyed with the idea of producing Open Console but to my knowledge nobody has ever really done it well. Yes there are various communities out there and that if anything shows that there has always been this "need". The last thing I'd want is for OM to dilute their effort on the FR but maybe someday they could become the name in OpenHardware. "OpenMoko Purveyors of OpenHardware since the start of the new millennium ;-)" Maybe I should join the Open Game Console Consortium and get some hardware specs and put my own console together that might take some time so if OM beat me to it I'll certainly buy their kit again. Later _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
