Just a suggestion for the website: the home page should probably be a nice landing page explaining what the project is about, rather than your blog.<p>Link to your blog for sure, but the home page should explain quickly what the project is and why I should care.
The big FAQ, for your convenience:<p>--<p>When will the device be available to purchase?<p>We anticipate the device will be available to the general public later in 2011 – we were hoping to hit the end of November, but right now December’s looking more likely.
There are doubts about how open this project will be. I share that concern. But, I also give the guy credit for making the project at all. Maybe it will be more closed than I would like. If the project is a success and produces a lot of boards, then I expect real open source builds of software for it will follow from someone. As a start, I can't think of anything I would prefer to Linux and Python as a place to start. I sure want to buy a few of these boards to experiment with.
What's the point of discussing not-yet-released product (i.e. one can't buy it) without proper schematics (or maybe I just didn't found one?) nearly useless tiny PNG file with a PCB layout and no source code available?<p>Sure, tiny $25 board is cool. If it can be obtained. No point in discussing it further before they either ship it or release DIY manuals.
the idea of a credit card sized board, running open sourced code, to connect with peripherals is fantastic. but this project is going to disappoint. the guy works for broadcom which is how he got the smaller than minimum quantity of chips, so don't expect it to be repeated by anyone else. it's aim claims to be education, and people compare this to kit computers many years ago, but this is a far cry from that. this guy wants to steer you to use GNU/Linux and scripting languages like Python. no assembly programming. how can a kid learn about hardware without learning assembly? so much for education.
When i first heard about the Project i was impressed, good to know they won some award, but it is boring after a while as nothing is being shipped even after so many years, just hype, they should remove the 25$ tag till they ship it