Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively!<p>But a few niggles:<p>- Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst that may be the norm for buying components, I'd argue most people familiar with OpenWrt and the Raspberry-Pi generation are going to miss this detail and think "Oh wow, 512MB RAM and 128MB flash!", when in fact it's 1/8th of that.<p>- There's some mention of a standard shield, but no information on what it includes or when it will be available.<p>- Like others have said, that scrolling on the website is extremely annoying.<p>Regardless, I will definitely be buying one anyway.
It feels like theres like a Lagrangian point out there in device space that these devices are converging on. It doesn't quite exist yet, but we are getting tantalizingly close. It networks like a Cisco, runs linux like a server, has GPIO like an Arduino, and costs as much as a Latte.<p>Once it exists, its almost like computorium, becoming the center of nearly every maker project and then <i>staying there</i> because its so cheap you don't have to choose which projects get your precious dev boards.<p>This is a fantastic step towards that goal.
Could I have this please with 802.11ac WiFi, 5GHz, preferrably supporting a 4x4 MIMO setup.
I would love to have an open access point for my network. I like to have more than 300Mbps and to avoid the 2.4GHz network though even more.
I understand this owuld be more expensive, but would be willing to pay a higher price.
Is it open hardware if the ISA of the processor is not free (in both senses)? I think MIPS (which this uses) is free, but I see a lot of open hardware where I doubt the ISA, much less the architecture, is free.
my favorite is the banana pi: gigabit, sata etc<p><a href="http://www.lemaker.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.lemaker.org/</a><p><a href="http://www.linuxx.eu/2014/08/banana-pi-raspberry-pi-upgraded.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.linuxx.eu/2014/08/banana-pi-raspberry-pi-upgraded...</a>
What are the power specs? For battery powered applications like the shown mini-quadcopter you really need to know the watts as well as weight. Admittedly, WiFi has a very spiky power consumption profile.
Looks like a Carambola2 (19€).
<a href="http://8devices.com/carambola-2" rel="nofollow">http://8devices.com/carambola-2</a><p>Same amount of RAM and flash, but different SOC.
This looks really awesome. I've been contemplating a KickStarter project for a Linux networking device for a while, and this may well make it possible at an attractive per-device price point. Everything else was either too pricey or not quite powerful enough.
Can anyone comment on the read/write performance of SPI flash? Seems like it would be similar in performance to SD card, but without the wear leveling?
I always find it hard to take things seriously when they are written in poor english. "Will coming soon" makes me worry about the quality of the rest of the project, maybe more than I should.