Hello, Recently, there's been some apparent discontent expressed on the wiki about the NanoNote roadmap. Personally, I think it's distasteful to just write on wiki pages that those pages are "lies" and that they should be removed in shame by those who didn't deliver the goodies on schedule, but then I may have a somewhat old-fashioned perspective on what polite behaviour is. Starting an IRC or mailing list flame war would at least be engaging with other people, if not exactly polite, either.
Usually, it's Ron who brings up this topic, and I hope he is still reading this list, but maybe it's worth having a "State of the NanoNote" discussion. Maybe it would have to take the form of how one would do another NanoNote today, given that there isn't a button one can push to just resume everything, but I suppose that activity around open hardware is now at a completely different level to what it was a few years ago and that we could bring in things that other people are doing, too. I think someone suggested on IRC that I should be doing a qi-hardware newsletter, but I'll say "no" to that suggestion for now. ;-) Probably most similar to the NanoNote architecturally is the GCW Zero, which appears to be almost available: "The GCW Zeros will be shipped from US to Germany on June 20th. They should be available about 10 - 14 days later (depends on shipping speed)." https://www.dragonbox.de/en/gcw-zero/111-gcw-zero.html Maybe this is the closest there is, at least in terms of the numbers in the specification, to what might be expected of a NanoNote successor, although there are obviously things that may not be friendly to Free Software such as the Vivante GPU. Obviously the form factor is different, although I suppose you could plug in a USB keyboard and make your own clamshell exoskeleton like all those tablet keyboard docks that have appeared (and that Raspberry Pi "laptop" somebody did). Elsewhere, the Rhombus Tech people seem to have been making some progress with their EOMA-68 card and, more interestingly, the Flying Squirrel tablet that the KDE developers wanted: http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/kde_tablet/news/ Although some people are critical of the whole EOMA-68 concept, I think that the community around it seems to have knowledgeable people in a range of areas, and collaboration with some of them could be interesting. Does anyone have (or know of) any interesting NanoNote-related projects going on, whether it is just to extend the Ben or to make something similar? Personally, I'm more intrigued as to whether we are capable of making a successor than wanting one myself: I'm quite happy to use the Ben every now and again when I get the time. Paul _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
