Again good news: we have won one of the new PandaBoards (OMAP4 / ARM Coretx A9) boards through the PandaBoard Early Adopter Program:
http://omappedia.org/wiki/PandaBoard_Voting#PHASE-I_Winners http://omappedia.org/wiki/PEAP_Projects#Handheld_LCD_.26_GPS_.26_Navigation_Expansion_Board http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Beagle_Hybrid Our goal is to adapt the hard- and software of the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid to this new board. This will give even more power to future Openmoko devices. Nikolaus Am 14.09.2010 um 10:50 schrieb Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller: > Hi, > you may wonder what has happened to the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid [1] mentioned > in the August Community update (cited below). > > First of all we had some delay with our SMD assembly company. They had > holidays > on one hand and more work than expected (economy appears indeed to flourish > again). But now we have 10 kits available to find a new home. > > And we received a BeagleBoard XM some days ago and started to test the OM > Hybrid. > > We found two major issues so far: > > 1. the BB-XM already comes with connectors soldered to the board. > Unfortunately Murphy's law did hit us and the BB-XM uses the opposite > gender > as our approach for mounting to the BB-C4. > We now have to adjust for that (by finding a simple adapter solution). > > 2. the BB-XM uses a different version of the bootloader that is not > compatible with our own code extensions [2]. > So we have to fix that so that our SD card image works on the both, the > older BB-C > and the new BB-XM. > > Why is the BB-XM important at all, considering that the BB-C4 is still > available > and a little cheaper? Well, the BB-XM comes with a new DM3730 processor > (1 GHz ARM Cortex A8), has a built-in USB/Ethernet hub for 4 ports and a > built-in RS232 converter. This makes it even more simple to experiment with > Bluetooth, WiFi, UMTS sticks connected to the Openmoko Beagle Hybrid > while still having a portable design (using an external battery pack) to do > experiments. > > So we work on these issues and just need some more days to solve them. > > Nikolaus > > [1]: http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Openmoko_Beagle_Hybrid > [2]: http://projects.goldelico.com/p/ombeagle/ > > Am 04.08.2010 um 10:28 schrieb Timo Jyrinki: > >> Newest community update now available at >> http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Community_Updates/2010-08-01 and >> simplified text version below. >> > >> Community >> >> Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs >> etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc.. >> >> * Golden Delicious Computers released Openmoko Beagle Hybrid >> Boards including GPS and a gyroscope. At the same time, they announced >> - http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/community/2010-July/062609.html >> - plans to develop the next open hardware phone. Based on a OMAP3530 >> SoC this device will bring a lot of computing power to your pocket. > > > _______________________________________________ > Smartphones-userland mailing list > smartphones-userl...@linuxtogo.org > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/smartphones-userland _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community