On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:52:30 +0000, Philip Hands <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:22:02 -0500, James Vasile <[email protected]> > wrote: > ... > > The problem with numbers is they imply precision that doesn't always > > exist. There is no detailed hidden budget. $500K is an estimate of the > > resources it would take to actualize the vision. > > Hi James, > > If I had that money to spend on such a project, I'd probably burn some > of it on getting a decent hardware design sorted out, and publish it as > an open design to encourage its production (a la Arduino). The little > plug computers that exist all seem to be either anoyingly broken in some > minor (or major) way, or rather too expensive to have mass appeal. > > One feature I'd definitely want to include if designing from scratch > would be the ability to draw its power from USB phone chargers (on the > basis that we're going to be knee deep in the things soon) and the > ability to use two of them, so that (given that they're cheap & nasty) > the Freedombox can send you an email pointing out that one of its PSUs > has died. > > Just an idea -- it might well be easier to assume that android phones > are going to end up cheap enough, and use one of them as the hardware > though, since that gets you economies of scale without any effort on our > part. > > Cheers, Phil.
Phil, these are good and creative ideas (two PSUs!). Maybe you could add them to the wiki? If we can start pooling these ideas in a central place and refining them together, all this creativity might just add up to real progress! _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
