Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-23 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 2:33 PM, mike.v...@gmail.com wrote: > 2017-05-21 1:45 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : >> >> the layout's hilarious: the PCB is over 50% completely empty. what i >> haven't done is: > > >

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-23 Thread mike.v...@gmail.com
2017-05-21 1:45 GMT+02:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton : > the layout's hilarious: the PCB is over 50% completely empty. what i > haven't done is: > Would it make sense to add a small LiPo battery, to fill the empty space? That way you can swap a card from one housing to another, without the nee

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-21 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:22 PM, Benson Mitchell wrote: > > Could you modify the casework and put the microSD sideways, so it's only > accessible when the card is not in a housing, and then have room for all the > connec

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-21 Thread Benson Mitchell
On May 20, 2017 7:47 PM, "Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton" wrote: remember that this *really is* the bare minimum - it'll be amazingly an under $10 BOM. also that if you _did_ want to add HP and/or TV-out and/or MIC sockets, as well as OTG you can't: there's not enough room on the connector, no

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card / EOMA50

2017-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 3:59 AM, Mike Leimon wrote: > >> the layout's hilarious: the PCB is over 50% completely empty. > > Allow me to be the first to point out that for this very reason this SOC > might be an excellent candidate for the first SOC to adapt to the EOMA50 > standard. exactly. no

[Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card / EOMA50

2017-05-20 Thread Mike Leimon
> the layout's hilarious: the PCB is over 50% completely empty. Allow me to be the first to point out that for this very reason this SOC might be an excellent candidate for the first SOC to adapt to the EOMA50 standard. > remember that this *really is* the bare minimum - it'll be amazingly an und

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-20 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ismo, hi, it was just too tempting to have an initial go at converting the CHIP_PRO_v1 schematic and PCB into a version of an EOMA68-GR8 card, deliberately cutting it down to the absolute basic minimum - after only about 6 hours i'm pretty much done connecting everything together, having cut/paste

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-15 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
hiya ismo, ok so i've been in touch with nexthing.co on your behalf and they've told me that it's a flat $6 for a GR8+AXP209 up to 10k volumes. it's also FOB HK (as in, you have to pay import and shipping from Hong Kong). so i realise this is a while down the line, but let me know when you're re

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Ismo Väänänen wrote: >>Wouldn't the PCMCIA card thickness be an issue when using a CPU module? > > According to the mechanical drawing on page 32 of the v1.0 GR8 datasheet the > SoM is at

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-14 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
ismo you say the following in the document: "Without a front panel USB-OTG port the compute module cannot be powered as-is and thus is not EOMA68 compatible." that's a misunderstanding. there is absolutely nothing in the standard which states "There Must Be A USB-OTG Port On The Front Panel". t

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 6:49 AM, Louis Pearson wrote: > I had this same idea just today, though I doubt I would have gotten > even this far. Go for it! > > I believe I originally brought it up, in the context of an EOMA50 card, > but an EOMA68 card would probably be more immediately useful. i'd

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 4:32 PM, Ismo Väänänen wrote: >>Wouldn't the PCMCIA card thickness be an issue when using a CPU module? > > According to the mechanical drawing on page 32 of the v1.0 GR8 datasheet the > SoM is at

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-13 Thread Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
--- crowd-funded eco-conscious hardware: https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68 On Thu, May 11, 2017 at 1:05 AM, Ismo Väänänen wrote: > Hello, > > The recent talk about de-blobbing R8 and thus also GR8 inspired me to do a > quick write up on how I see a Next Thing Co. GR8 System-In-Package chip > be

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-11 Thread Ismo Väänänen
>Wouldn't the PCMCIA card thickness be an issue when using a CPU module? According to the mechanical drawing on page 32 of the v1.0 GR8 datasheet the SoM is at maximum 1.12mm thick. This should fit nicely inside even the 3.5mm typeI EOMA68 case. https://github.com/NextThingCo/CHIP_Pro-Hardware/blo

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-11 Thread CNX Software
Wouldn't the PCMCIA card thickness be an issue when using a CPU module? On 05/11/2017 07:05 AM, Ismo Väänänen wrote: Hello, The recent talk about de-blobbing R8 and thus also GR8 inspired me to do a quick write up on how I see a Next Thing Co. GR8 System-In-Package chip being used in an EOMA

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-10 Thread Louis Pearson
I had this same idea just today, though I doubt I would have gotten even this far. Go for it! I believe I originally brought it up, in the context of an EOMA50 card, but an EOMA68 card would probably be more immediately useful. ___ arm-netbook mailing li

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-10 Thread Allan Mwenda
Do it! The more cards the merrier. On 11 May 2017 03:05:24 GMT+03:00, "Ismo Väänänen" wrote: >Hello, > >The recent talk about de-blobbing R8 and thus also GR8 inspired me to >do a >quick write up on how I see a Next Thing Co. GR8 System-In-Package chip >being used in an EOMA68 compatible card. >

Re: [Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-10 Thread zap
On 05/10/2017 08:05 PM, Ismo Väänänen wrote: > Hello, > > The recent talk about de-blobbing R8 and thus also GR8 inspired me to > do a quick write up on how I see a Next Thing Co. GR8 > System-In-Package chip being used in an EOMA68 compatible card. > The latest version of the write up can be foun

[Arm-netbook] GR8 based EOMA68 card

2017-05-10 Thread Ismo Väänänen
Hello, The recent talk about de-blobbing R8 and thus also GR8 inspired me to do a quick write up on how I see a Next Thing Co. GR8 System-In-Package chip being used in an EOMA68 compatible card. The latest version of the write up can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/oh2ftg/eoma68/eoma6