You should check out the Quark-based Galieleo, also by Intel, shipping mid next month in volume… much more interesting than a $200 Atom board IMHO.
Best -F On Nov 24, 2013, at 5:31 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhack...@gmail.com> wrote: > Intel must have felt left out of all the fun people are having with > hobbyist single-board-computers, and has released an open hardware > Atom-based board, The MinnowBoard: > > http://www.minnowboard.org/ > > But at $190, not exactly priced to compete with a BeagleBone or > Raspberry Pi (yet they say the product is aimed at "makers"). > > Some specs: > > Intel® Atom(TM) 1.0 GHz 32-bit CPU with Hyper-Threading and > Technology > Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator (GMA) 600 > Generous I/O > PCI Express > SATA2 3Gb/sec > Gigabit Ethernet > SDIO > UEFI Firmware > > More specs and block diagram here: > http://www.minnowboard.org/technical-features/ > > Quoting: > http://www.minnowboard.org/design-goals/ > > Board Design Goals: > > Our goal was to create a customizable developer board that uses Intel® > Architecture and can be easily replicated. It is a simple board layout > that lends itself to customization. The hardware design is open. We > used open source software as much as possible. We used standard (not > cutting edge) components that are in stock and affordable, to keep the > cost down. Finally, we designed a small footprint with hopes of making > it even smaller. > > Software / OS: > > The MinnowBoard is powered by the open source Angstrom Linux > Distribution, which provides a variety of software packages that are > relevant to and optimized for embedded applications. It is easy to > install additional software from the Angstrom package feeds. Angstrom > is registered as Yocto Project Compatible which is the most flexible > build system for embedded Linux on the open source market. > > [...] > Flexibility / Expandibilty: > > The "Lure" concept, the daughter card capability, has a flexible > expansion connector which is chassis-friendly and stackable. We'll > offer some open source designed Lures starting with some basic > functions. You can also design your own Lures. > > > -Tom > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > Hardwarehacking@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking > _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list Hardwarehacking@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
