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Article #312Re: OLinuXino, a serious Rasberry Pi competitor?
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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