Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
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Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
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Re: Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
#2For those that didn't instantly recognize the name, this is Bunnie Huang's open laptop he talked about previously [1]
Re: Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
#3I have been waiting for some time for the crowdfunding campaign.
The FreeScale i.MX6 platform is very versatile. Up to quad core 1.2GHz, SATA, PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet (limited to 480Mbps) and lots of good documentation and driver support.
The only issue is the graphics blob and... in this case the price tag. I hoped I could afford it, but it looks like I can't.
Still, there are lots of other community boards based on the i.MX6 SoC. If you don't need the laptop version or an FPGA, there are much cheaper boards out there.
The Novena Open Laptop really is good work. I hope it'll get funded!
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#4The boards are a little out of my price range at the moment. But definitely wanted to support this project, so I have backed "Buy us a Beer" at $5.
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#5Love at first sight. The only thing left is deciding whether to buy the desktop or the laptop version.
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#6this guy is pretty awesome, might be just the hack candy one might like to have if one is into hardware hacking.
TL;DR: here is the video from a conference where bunnie and his friend hacked flash card controller, so you can see the qualities that the laptop will possess.
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#7Having worked with bunnie and xobs at chumby, one thing I can vouch for is that they intimately understand the risks and challenges of actual real-world hardware production at scale.
The fact that they went ahead with the crowdfunding on this is a really good indication that it will actually ship (if the goals are hit), and with a much higher probability of being on time than your average Kickstarter hardware project (where the people behind it usually have never had hands-on experience with actual production runs).
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#8Thank you, bunnie, Xobs, et al., for listening to the interest that was expressed for what was a personal project and deciding in response to expand its scope (quite significantly), providing this momentum to open-source hardware and systems.
(I don't know bunnie nor Xobs, but this is what I gather happened based upon reading occasionally about the project over the past some months.)
From my perspective, bunnie provided a write-up of what he was up to, purely for the interest of those who cared to read. There was overwhelming response.
If you care about open systems and hackability (in the classic sense), this is really worth looking into and hopefully supporting. (From my admittedly limited perspective.)
Re: Crowdfunding the Novena Open Laptop
#9This is GREAT to see Novena make it to this step. A truly awesome amount of work by bunnie and xobs it exciting see them make this far!
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#10I'm happy to see some sane crowdfunding pricing on these reward tiers. So many projects have their reward pricing set similar to retail prices. That's fine if you've already done all the R&D work on the project and there's little risk, but if you actually need net funding from the project then you need a significant overhead on every reward.
That said, I hope this is successful, these guys are consummate hardware hackers, it'll be neat to see what happens when they ship a project on this scale that ends up in a lot of people's hands.