Paul Boddie
2016-06-09 16:44:11 UTC
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
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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
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