On 13/10/2010 08:15, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller wrote: > Again good news: > > we have won one of the new PandaBoards (OMAP4 / ARM Coretx A9) boards through > the PandaBoard Early Adopter Program: > > http://omappedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard_Voting#PHASE-I_Winners > > http://omappedia.org/wiki/PEAP_Projects#Handheld_LCD_.26_GPS_.26_Navigation_Expansion_Board > http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Beagle_Hybrid > > Our goal is to adapt the hard- and software of the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid to > this new board. This will give even more power to future Openmoko devices. > > Nikolaus > > Am 14.09.2010 um 10:50 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: > >
--> That's sound Excellent ! (still a lot of new work, but excellent news !) Thomas >> Hi, >> you may wonder what has happened to the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid [1] mentioned >> in the August Community update (cited below). >> >> First of all we had some delay with our SMD assembly company. They had >> holidays >> on one hand and more work than expected (economy appears indeed to flourish >> again). But now we have 10 kits available to find a new home. >> >> And we received a BeagleBoard XM some days ago and started to test the OM >> Hybrid. >> >> We found two major issues so far: >> >> 1. the BB-XM already comes with connectors soldered to the board. >> Unfortunately Murphy's law did hit us and the BB-XM uses the opposite >> gender >> as our approach for mounting to the BB-C4. >> We now have to adjust for that (by finding a simple adapter solution). >> >> 2. the BB-XM uses a different version of the bootloader that is not >> compatible with our own code extensions [2]. >> So we have to fix that so that our SD card image works on the both, the >> older BB-C >> and the new BB-XM. >> >> Why is the BB-XM important at all, considering that the BB-C4 is still >> available >> and a little cheaper? Well, the BB-XM comes with a new DM3730 processor >> (1 GHz ARM Cortex A8), has a built-in USB/Ethernet hub for 4 ports and a >> built-in RS232 converter. This makes it even more simple to experiment with >> Bluetooth, WiFi, UMTS sticks connected to the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid >> while still having a portable design (using an external battery pack) to do >> experiments. >> >> So we work on these issues and just need some more days to solve them. >> >> Nikolaus >> >> [1]: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Beagle_Hybrid >> [2]: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/ombeagle/ >> >> Am 04.08.2010 um 10:28 schrieb Timo Jyrinki: >> >> >>> Newest community update now available at >>> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-08-01 and >>> simplified text version below. >>> >>> >> >>> Community >>> >>> Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs >>> etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc.. >>> >>> * Golden Delicious Computers released Openmoko Beagle Hybrid >>> Boards including GPS and a gyroscope. At the same time, they announced >>> - http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2010-July/062609.html >>> - plans to develop the next open hardware phone. Based on a OMAP3530 >>> SoC this device will bring a lot of computing power to your pocket. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Smartphones-userland mailing list >> smartphones-userl...@linuxtogo.org >> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland >> > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
