L.S.
Just put some thoughts to paper.
http://imgur.com/a/z98zJ
Just a mock-up, nothing thoroughly engineered
Notes:
1. Make the battery exchangeable.
2. Reuse cheap cellphone batteries (mass produced) in adapter sleeves.
2. Make the network interface exchangeable.
3. Make adapter sleeves for the most common cellphone batteries.
Some benefits:
- Batteries have differing lifespans than screens/cpu's/network systems.
- Battery technology evolves rapidly.
- Every new cellphone has a different battery format. Cheap sleeves can be
made to accommodate the cheapest available battery.
- Wireless/Wired network technologies are abundand and evolve rapidly.
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with a wired variant
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with an new network technology bg/n/ac
5ghz channels etc
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with an roaming network service, 2G,
2.5G, 3G, 4G.
- The wifi dongle does not need to be pre bundeled. User can choose
his/hers own
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with a usb camera low or highend
The bottom USB slots can be used as a connector for charging stations,
docking stations, keyboard docks, dual screen, etc.
P.S. It's been awfully quite around here.....
Kr, Mike
Hello everybody
step by step informations are coming out from this new "player".
informations I could obtained from them are:
for the LAN chip it is :AR 8035
for the WIFI chip is: RTL 8188EUS
the "schematic" of the platform can be found here:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/tbs2910/TBS2910-Matrix-ARM-mini-PC-…
and how to install the O.S on it is here:
http://www.tbsdtv.com/download/document/tbs2910/How-to-burn-a-new-OS-into-e…
and about the GPIO, I've put a copy here:
http://www.fishspirit.org/TBS2910MatrixARMminiPC/
and the other informations about the GPIO I've obtained are:
[root@matrixtv ~]# ls /sys/devices/virtual/gpio/
gpiochip0 gpiochip160 gpiochip32 gpiochip96
gpiochip128 gpiochip192 gpiochip64
it's a bit "light" for the moment.
so we'll see...
I have a question about the miniPCie port included on this platform, what
kind of interfaces/extensions can we find for it? (I googled about it, and
most of them are SATA but there is already one on it, so ?...)
is there someone to open my eyes?
Regards
Erix
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> From: Simon Kenyon <simon(a)koala.ie>
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> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] Another "new" ARM plateform
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> would be really cool to find a little board with S2 and/or T2 onboard;
> rather than via USB
>
> On 25 Dec 2013, at 06:42, Erix <erixbzh(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > first at all, Merry Christmas to all of you.
> >
> > what do you think about this "new" one?
> >
> > http://www.tbsdtv.com/launch/tbs-2910-matrix-arm-mini-pc.html
> >
> > driven by a Freescal MCIMX6Q5EYM10AC / Quad ARM Cortex-A9 at 1.0GHz
> > and 10/100/1000 wired Ethernet, WIFI IEEE 802.11n/b/g + SATA
> >
> > the GPIO port looks a bit... little.
> >
> > Regards
> > Erix
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Somebody from Imagination Technologies left a comment on my blog:
http://www.cnx-software.com/2014/01/10/a80-optimusboard-features-allwinner-…
The part related to this mailing list is:
"Secondly, the links below contain DDK (Driver Development Kit) source
packages distributed through our customers:
.....
Rhombus Tech (1.10 onwards)
http://git.rhombus-tech.net/?p=linux.git;a=tree;f=modules/eurasia_km;hb=163…
"
This repo points to something called eurasia_km for A31 Android 4.2.
This is clearly related to the PowerVR GPU A31, but I don't really
understand what can be done with this source. Would it be possible to
use it with a Linux distribution, or the binary part still relies on the
Android drivers?
I've also seen Mele play 4K videos in Linux on AllWinner A31.
Does that mean a Linux port with GPU and VPU support is technically
feasible with what is available today?
Hi everybody,
first at all, Merry Christmas to all of you.
what do you think about this "new" one?
http://www.tbsdtv.com/launch/tbs-2910-matrix-arm-mini-pc.html
driven by a Freescal MCIMX6Q5EYM10AC / Quad ARM Cortex-A9 at 1.0GHz
and 10/100/1000 wired Ethernet, WIFI IEEE 802.11n/b/g + SATA
the GPIO port looks a bit... little.
Regards
Erix
On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 8:33 AM, Linus Gasser <list(a)markas-al-nour.org> wrote:
> Le 25/12/13 18:37, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton a écrit :
>
>> just something for people's attention, this is a pretty damn good find
>> by erix: quad-core 1ghz iMX6, it has 2gb of RAM, SATA, GbE and a full
>> MiniPCIe slot (not just USB-only but *full* PCIe because the iMX6 has
>> 1x PCIe). and plenty more. on the face of it it looks like the $150
>> price tag is high when compared to alternatives but the alternatives
>> don't come with SATA, PCIe or 2gb of RAM.
>
>
> Hi,
>
> this looks great - does anybody have experience with its WLAN-chip? Is it
> possible to run it as an AP? I'm trying to run Dreamplug (old and new
> version) and Smileplug with the latest Linux-kernels, but experience crashes
> and non-working AP-mode, so if I replace them, I'd like these to work ;)
well they don't say what it is - you'd have to ask them. i'm looking
at the download link for source code and it's referring here:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/openpctv/
which is... generic, it looks like.
you'll have to explore a bit more.
l.
> Linus
>
after some thought (and thank you for the comments), 1 SD/MMC and SPI
interface have been added to the EOMA68 specification. as these pins
are already brought out on the EOMA68-A20 CPU Card, there is no
modification of the EOMA68-A20 CPU Card design required. only those
people with the [first] A10 CPU Cards (of which there were only 5
made, and i have 2 here) would be affected.
comments appreciated:
http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68
l.