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The Aijuboard has lots of cool features like non-usb full gigabit ethernet though.
I'm also curious of the kind of things you could do with the FPGA too.
I'm surprised that they have a hard limit of maximum of 10 boards and set their campaign funding threshold to be exactly that. This, together with the very high $100-no-real-reward-minimum-contribution definitely stops it to be a more than "an okay success" even if the funding goal is met. Not that people are aren't allowed to do thing the way they want, just it's unusual. Makes me guess it can be a project where the…
The hard limit is to do with practicalities of low-volume production when you're not sure if enough people will buy them. All ten boards need to be funded (one way or another) for production to go ahead at all. Another practicality is the EU's draconian electronics-approval laws. The USA exempts prototypes from approval, but the EU doesn't. The board designer is German, so EU laws mean he can't legally sell or even g…