The wandboard consists of two pieces, a cpu module and a carrier board that has the peripheral interfaces. The module uses an emerging standard (the EDM standard) which several companies are supporting. We are currently using the wandboard in its entirety because it is functional as is. What I am developing is a carrier board with high quality audio hardware built in. Wandbord has announced that they will be offering the modules separately in the future, but are not currently doing so.
Because it is a standard interface, there should eventually be several modules that will work with my carrier board. For the hardware beta test phase the users will need to buy a wandboard, remove the cpu module from its carrier board (4 screws) and attach it to my carrier board. The assumption is that when the full release is ready (what I have been calling Gen2) the modules will be available separately. Exactly how it's going to happen, exactly how things are packaged etc is still being worked out. But this "take it off one board and put it on the other" will NOT be part of the full release. If all you want is something to plug in a USB DAC then the current wandboard is all you need. John S. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ JohnSwenson's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5974 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98521 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
