But then I found about the beagleboard, which is open and have the schematics on their website http://beagleboard.org/hardware/design
it's more powerful than the Pi, but seems rather expensive still. It's $150, which is not that much less than an iphone. And if you take all the phone cost/screen and etc so you get only a single board, it should be cheaper and more powerful. Oh, as for comparing the processing power of an iphone, I found a link where someone seems to have figured out what its chip is all about. If anyone else is curious to compare the power, here you go: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/09/16/iphone-5-benchmarks-appear-in-geekbench-showing-dual-core-1ghz-a6-cpu/ cheers 2012/9/16 Alexandre Torres Porres <[email protected]> > "Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation > are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe "democratise"?) production > through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to > start making them locally." > > For what I saw, the circuitry is not opened, or is it? I fear that, > unfortunately, I didn't see it anywhere so it seems they haven't done that, > although they are surely willing to disseminate the usage of technology. > > And I know wat you mean and that is why I hope something like that > happens. And, as I was saying, the arduino works like that and some people > in brazil can spend around less than 20$ in the parts needed to build it. > > And so I also mentioned about this possibility of a newer version of the > arduino made up with an ARM processor. It seems it will be not only open > hardware, but capable of being both a computer and an arduino. I look > forward to that. > > Cheers > > > 2012/9/16 Andy Farnell <[email protected]> > >> On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 05:47:22PM -0300, Alexandre Torres Porres wrote: >> > Thanks a lot Andy, that was really informative. >> > >> > So I see there's no point at all comparing this "super" Pi rack to >> general >> > computers, and that you can't run one Pd having it being served by 64 of >> > these. >> > >> > cheers >> >> Actually, there's a lot of value in these arrays for DSP work, at least >> particular >> kinds of creative DSP work, because what you have is effectively a giant >> modular synth. Data flow is a good candidate, because the work is >> usually a unidirectional flow of data frames through the system. >> >> On another note, I was pondering your comment on the economics of >> the Pi in Brazil that you replied to Charles. >> >> Maybe I am mistaken but the real, deep objectives of the Pi foundation >> are to ubiquitize (yuck!!!) (maybe "democratise"?) production >> through open hardware design so that you can get a fab plant to >> start making them locally. I know Brazil can't compete with >> China on economies of scale right now, but nontheless the >> opportunity is there at least without any trade barries based on >> intellectual property nonsense. Its long past time we had a standard >> international unit of computing that any 10 year old kid can grab and >> know the other 9 billion people on the planet have access to. >> >> best >> Andy >> > >
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