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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). > > * > Drew Van Zandt > Artisan's Asylum Craft Lead, Electronics & Robotics > Cam # US2010035593 (M:Liam Hopkins R: Bastian Rotgeld) > Domain Coordinator, MA-003-D. Masquerade aVST > * > > > > 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 >> >> -- >> Tom Metro >> Venture Logic, Newton, MA, USA >> "Enterprise solutions through open source." >> Professional Profile: http://tmetro.venturelogic.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss at blu.org >> http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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