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Status update
by Felix 25 Nov '22

25 Nov '22

Hey Luke, hope you and your and fam are doing well ;) We haven't heard anything from you in a while, and would be great to have an status update or something similar :P -- Felix

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EOMA68 and 2021 podcast referencing the matter
by Giovanni Lostumbo 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

Open Source Voices is a great podcast. I've listened to Lukes, Maddog Halls' and Chris's interviews. Still getting around to listening to more. I listened to this whole podcast yesterday. 1:10:00-1:20:00 worth a listen (even before that) (it mentions EOMA68): https://www.opensourcevoices.org/13 4/6/2021 I think it might help explain why some are wondering- some view Crowdfunding as a donation for R&D, not as a purchase. I'm not here to side with a view, but I just wanted to help witth this info in case some were trying to figure out if anyone feels entitled to a product- whether it is binding or not. etc is not something I'm privy to, but seems explained in previous messages. When someone makes a public statement on a podcast, It's not unreasonable to believe that they are stating what they actually believe, and may act that way. Happy Thanksgiving! -G

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Re: [Arm-netbook] You have been unsubscribed from the arm-netbook mailing list
by Tzafrir Cohen 23 Nov '22

23 Nov '22

Hi, Despite the mail suggesting otherwise, I was not. I have already mailed admin@ and such. I guess it's time to redirect mailing list messages elsewhere. Just wanted to note this in case this is an issue of someone else. I guess someone need to kick the list server at the right spot. Anyway, thanks to all list members for everything I learned here. Cheers, On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 07:53:18AM +0000, arm-netbook-bounces(a)lists.phcomp.co.uk wrote: -- mail / xmpp / matrix: tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il

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Various projects somewhat related to the EOMA initiative
by Paul Boddie 29 Jun '22

29 Jun '22

Hello, There doesn't seem to be much EOMA68 news any more, but I was reminded of some of the ideas brought up in the context of the initiative by a few products or projects that came to my attention recently. One interesting product is the Mixtile Blade 3 which just about met its funding goal on Crowd Supply: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mixtile-limited/mixtile-blade-3 The interesting idea that this implements is the ability to daisy-chain the boards using PCI Express, and there is also a cluster box that provides a switched PCI Express bus. In the context of EOMA68 or similar efforts there was this idea: https://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/cluster_server/ The Mixtile Blade 3 uses the Rockchip RK3588, which has also been introduced in products from PINE64: https://www.pine64.org/2022/03/15/march-update-introducing-the-quartzpro64/ Another notable development from PINE64 is an impending introduction of a RISC-V-based product (these having started to emerge from various other places, often based on the Allwinner D1): https://www.pine64.org/2022/06/28/june-update-who-likes-risc-v/ >From the choice of GPU technology, it seems like this might be the basis of the SoC being used: https://www.imaginationtech.com/news/imagination-and-andes-jointly-validate… ImgTec have now started to work on Free Software drivers for various products, as I understand it, although I doubt that older products will be supported, and the firmware will most likely remain non-free. I would love to be proved wrong, though. It's a shame ImgTec didn't have the same level of ambition and pragmatism when they owned MIPS. On that topic, David posted news of an interesting project on the Tinkerphones mailing list: https://lists.goldelico.com/pipermail/community/2022-June/002206.html To summarise, someone has been pursuing the development of a featurephone using the Ingenic X1000E: http://www.ingenic.com.cn/en/?product/id/9.html That SoC has a relatively small amount of on-board RAM (64MB, which counts as small these days), but it could run a very modest Linux distribution. Unlike earlier Ingenic SoCs, but like the JZ4780, it has a hardware floating-point arithmetic unit. And it also has the different on-chip peripherals for easy integration into portable devices. Relevant EOMA-related ideas include the following: https://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/games_console/ https://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/hybrid_phone/ https://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/pocket_qwerty_computer/ https://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/zipit_refit/ I haven't spent or pledged any money towards any of these initiatives, but for anyone wondering whether some of the EOMA-related ideas were ever taken up in some sense, I thought they might be of interest. Paul

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Green (literally photosynthetic!) technology to team with EOMA-68
by Richard Wilbur 14 May '22

14 May '22

EOMA-68 seems uniquely positioned to benefit from this type of technology! Low-power, long-endurance designs could make some pretty cool applications. “Algae-powered energy cell can keep a microprocessor running around the clock anywhere with sunlight” https://www.zmescience.com/science/algae-powered-energy-cell-can-keep-a-mic…

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Door bell cameras can pickup conversations from up to 25ft away.
by David Niklas 03 May '22

03 May '22

Dear luke, The data from these cameras and microphones is stored in the cloud. This means that all the audio and video captured is vulnerable to interception and unauthorized access by other people and the US government. https://www.consumerreports.org/video-doorbells/video-doorbell-cameras-reco… Sincerely, David PS: I did not think they had microphones.

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Schematic and PCB layout CAD files
by Arun Isaac 01 Feb '22

01 Feb '22

Hi, Are the schematic and PCB layout CAD files for the EOMA68 computer card and the various housings available for download? I'm wondering if I can fabricate some of the housings on my own using a CNC mill. Hence, my interest in them. Sorry I had to ask. I searched very hard through the crowdsupply page and the rhombus-tech site, but couldn't find them. Thanks, Arun.

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links at rhombus-tech recent changes -> 404 not found
by Pablo Rath 18 Jan '22

18 Jan '22

Hello, It seems to me that the recent changes listed here: http://rhombus-tech.net/recentchanges/ do no longer work correctly (broken links). kind regards Pablo

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SparkFun MicroMod
by David Boddie 27 Dec '21

27 Dec '21

This looks like another interesting reuse of an existing connector: https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/getting-started-with-micromod Not quite at the System on a Chip level hardware, but still useful for certain applications, I'm sure. David

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Crowd Supply update
by David Boddie 02 Nov '21

02 Nov '21

For those not subscribed to updates: 100 A20 Computer Cards Ready for Testing https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/100-a20-computer-c…

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