i guess i'll chime in here and mention that some folks are designing an ARM CortexA8-based computer based on a PCMCIA card (its called an EOMA68 card). the card can be put inside an enclosure that would offer breakouts if needed. the biggest difference here is that they are trying to do the whole project top to bottom using completely open source solutions - including the GPU. it's not a shipping product but they do have a schematic designed and are looking to qualify for a kickstarter campaign at the moment. it may be something to consider in six months to a year:
the discussion activity is mainly on the ARM-netbook list: http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/pipermail/arm-netbook/
scott
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 6:06 PM, chris clepper cgclepper@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:23 PM, Alexandre Torres Porres <porres@gmail.com
wrote:
For what I saw, the circuitry is not opened, or is it? I fear that, unfortunately, I didn't see it anywhere so it seems they haven't done that, although they are surely willing to disseminate the usage of technology.
No the Pi is not open. The licensing agreement with Broadcomm is one of the major liabilities with the Pi.
The Beagle/Panda/etc use TI parts and they are more friendly to open hardware (although you may have to buy TI's dev tools to get the most out of the hardware).
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