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Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?

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From: Nico Coesel
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:33
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Don McKenzie <5V@2.5A> wrote:

>OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?
>
>After talks at the recent Embedded conference in Germany (2012), Olimex 
>decided to go ahead with the production of two new boards that were very 
>similar to the Rasberry Pi. The first one they should have prototypes in 
>the coming weeks.
>
>The second will be 3 to 6 months before production boards will be seen, 
>so I won't cover it in this report, however the CPU specs on this second 
>board, are almost identical to the RPi microcontroller chip, and board.
>
>Olimex describes this board as a bridge to the linux development 
>community and the Duinomite/Arduino/Maple/Pinguino world of developers.
>
>This will be completely Open Hardware / Open Source Project, all CAD 
>files will be available so everyone can download modify, and use them. 
>Same with the software.
>
>More Info:
>http://www.duinomite.com/olinuxino-a-serious-rasberry-pi-competitor/

What's the form factor? Does it have 0.1" headers so you could add
processor horsepower to a veroboard / stripboard? That would be great
for quick one-off tinker stuff.

-- 
Failure does not prove something is impossible, failure simply
indicates you are not using the right tools...
nico@nctdevpuntnl (punt=.)
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