[Discuss] special BLU meeting Feb 1: single board computers

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

I was planning on sending out an announcement today.

On 01/25/2012 10:49 PM, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
> The TS-7500 is another very nice Linux SBC.  Only a so-so CPU/RAM, but the
> I/O is all via an FPGA that you can reprogram during runtime - in other
> words, reconfigurable hardware.  VERY nice for certain things - the stock
> FPGA gives you an extra 8 serial ports for 10 total, or you can swap out
> four of those for a CANbus, or you can write your own peripheral(s).
>
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> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro-blu at vl.com> wrote:
>
>> [A cross post from the Hardware Hacking list
>> (http://blu.wikispaces.com/Hardware+Hacking)]
>>
>> Kurt Keville wrote:
>>> actually some of them are available now... like the TI Beaglebone...
>>> (yup, bone)..
>>> http://beagleboard.org/bone
>>>
>>> Looks like we will see the sun4i-crane soon as well (EOMA compliant!)
>>> http://rhombus-tech.net/allwinner_a10/orders/
>>>
>>> and of course, we have the Raspberry Pi Director coming to BLU on Feb. 1
>>> http://blu.org/cgi-bin/calendar/2012-raspi1
>>>
>>> We may also be getting the Cotton Candy (FXITech ) CEO... stay tuned...
>> Will any be demoed running XBMC or Ubuntu TV?
>>
>> Graphics hardware in $25 Raspberry Pi Linux box outperforms iPhone 4S GPU
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2012/01/tiny-25-raspberry-pi-linux-board-reportedly-offers-twice-the-performance-of-iphone-4s-gpu.ars
>>
>>  The Raspberry Pi Foundation is building a low-cost Linux computer with
>>  a 700MHz ARM11 CPU. The board, which is roughly the size of a pack of
>>  playing cards, entered the manufacturing stage last month. There will
>>  be two models, priced at $25 and $35, with different specifications.
>>
>>  ...developers from the XBMC project demonstrated their software
>>  running on a Raspberry Pi board.
>>
>>  The demo, which can be viewed in a YouTube video, shows that XBMC runs
>>  reasonably well on the Raspberry Pi hardware and is relatively
>>  responsive. It was able to smoothly play an H.264-encoded 1080p video.
>>
>>
>> BeagleBone board boots up XBMC Eden, shows off its media prowess
>>
>> http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/25/beaglebone-board-boots-up-xbmc-eden-shows-off-its-media-prowess/
>>
>>  ...some intrepid devs managed to get the second beta of Eden up and
>>  running on the ARM A8 dev board. The vid stutters a bit during
>>  playback but, overall, it's a respectable performance considering this
>>  is a CPU that would get laughed out of most modern smartphones.
>>
>>
>>  -Tom
>>
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