[lug-l] Open Hardware Enterprise

[Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@xxxxxxx>]

Joshua,

My personal opinion on the Raspberry Pi is that it's slow, non-standard,
and locked-down.  Sure, there exists the raspbian and XBMC releases for
it, but I believe they are both relying on binary blobs of some sort
(GPU particularly).

As I linked, the EOMA68 card is, for ease of reference, a Raspberry Pi
on a standard, PCMCIA header.  The standard includes SATA and USB, and
the targeted processor is much faster than the Pi.

I believe my further suggestions are dependent on your freedoms.  Is the
enterprise looking for paid sponsors?  You'll have to go with what they
want.  If, on the other hand, you can engage with the open-source
community but maintaining milestones and deliverables, I would really
like to put you in contact with LKCL.

The goal would be an FSF-endorsable computer.  Luke (LKCL) has
descriptions of a laptop chassis that would take the EOMA68 card.  It
requires drivers for an STL32, which has an open-source library.
Alternately, the cards can be put into a server enclosure if the
backplane is designed.

In any case, the Raspberry Pi is a fad.
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Mele-A1000-TV-box-Allwinner-A10-hackable-device/532332455.html is a better device if you need something NOW, and the EOMA card is a better future solution.

Derek

On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 10:50 -0400, Joshua Pearce wrote:
> Hi Derek and Brian,
> 
> Short answer: yes - absolutely.
> 
> Long answer: The Enterprise is specifically focused OS hardware of any
> kind - will depend on sponsors.  However, any of the hardware that
> needs software to run (e.g a RepRap 3D printer http://www.reprap.org/)
> also uses open-source software. So for example the 3D printer shown in
> the Science article is was using OpenSCAD (programmers CAD -
> http://www.openscad.org/)  -  for the design operating on an Ubuntu
> Linux re-purposed MTU machine. The 3D printer itself was running off
> an Arduino (itself an open source microcontroller) - that is also all
> open source code - and the printer software was also open source
> (Printrun/Pronterface) was using open source slicers (either
> skeinforge of slic3r) to write the g code.
> 
> Of particular interest to this group - what do you think about
> targeting a bit higher end sci hardware using a rasberry pi?
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/
> 
> 
> JMP 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Derek LaHousse <dlahouss@xxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>         On 03/29/2012 07:21 PM, Jon DeVree wrote:
>         > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 17:39:48 -0400, Josh Knight wrote:
>         >> We will be discussing elections and new advisors tonight,
>         so if
>         >> you're interested in an officer position next year please
>         >> attend.
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>         >
>         > Can I be the club security hole?
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>         > PS: I rooted osiris and astraeus last night, I had to fix
>         the
>         > debian mirror.
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