Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Philip Hands
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Philip Hands wrote: >> Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes: >>> oh great - yeah the STM32F072 is like a grown-up version of the >>> arduino. none of this bullshit installing 160mb of java runtime, a >>> toy-for-an-IDE tha

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Philip Hands wrote: > Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes: >> oh great - yeah the STM32F072 is like a grown-up version of the >> arduino. none of this bullshit installing 160mb of java runtime, a >> toy-for-an-IDE that does nothing more than wrap sdcc and avr-ut

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Philip Hands
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton writes: > On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: >> On Wednesday 16. December 2015 16.28.09 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >>> >>> microcontrollers are actually a very small amount of memory, so if >>> you are writing lots of code, you're doing som

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 16. December 2015 16.28.09 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> microcontrollers are actually a very small amount of memory, so if >> you are writing lots of code, you're doing something badly, badly >> wrong. it is however

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 16. December 2015 16.28.09 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > microcontrollers are actually a very small amount of memory, so if > you are writing lots of code, you're doing something badly, badly > wrong. it is however a bit of a mind-bender: everything has to be > state-drive

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:18 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 16. December 2015 16.09.21 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> >> great. so, i'll put you down for the jz4775 and udesktop. > > Yes, please do! alright, awesome. i've got 5 very-very-first jz4775 cpu cards in assembly at th

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 16. December 2015 16.09.21 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > > great. so, i'll put you down for the jz4775 and udesktop. Yes, please do! > would you (or anyone else) possibly be interested in helping with the > firmware on the STM32F072? it's basically porting things like th

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:19 PM, Paul Boddie wrote: > On Wednesday 16. December 2015 14.00.49 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> it's a little early but i wanted to get a poll out of people who might >> be interested to buy the PCBs (and other parts) as a kit, for both the >> libre laptop PCBs

Re: [Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Paul Boddie
On Wednesday 16. December 2015 14.00.49 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > it's a little early but i wanted to get a poll out of people who might > be interested to buy the PCBs (and other parts) as a kit, for both the > libre laptop PCBs and the microdesktop units. I'm definitely interested in

[Arm-netbook] early alpha production run of libre laptop PCBs, microdesktops and CPU Cards

2015-12-16 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
it's a little early but i wanted to get a poll out of people who might be interested to buy the PCBs (and other parts) as a kit, for both the libre laptop PCBs and the microdesktop units. when i say "early" i mean "there's pretty much no software" - i have preliminary working firmware that i'm usi