Hello, I thought I'd post this and get flamed anyway. Someone brought the following Crowd Supply project to my attention very recently:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/knivd/ello-2m The NanoNote connection is somewhat tenuous but still interesting: it's an open hardware design, has a keyboard and screen (and thus isn't yet another "headless" single-board computer), and it uses a microcontroller in the MIPS- based PIC32 family as its CPU. It isn't at the same level of sophistication as the Ben, but I guess it shows off some interesting common aspects of how such products are designed and made. The whole PIC32 phenomenon is interesting to observe. Although we're talking about things with relatively little RAM - 128K or 512K in this case - they tend to have more RAM than the average ARM microcontroller (and obviously much more than the ubiquitous AVR stuff turned out by Arduino, Adafruit and so on). That's been enough to let people run Unix variants like RetroBSD on PIC32 boards: http://retrobsd.org/wiki/doku.php Another Crowd Supply campaign that was also pointed out is this one: https://www.crowdsupply.com/soniktech/zamek That one seems to want to play in the Anelok space. ;-) Paul _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
