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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 7:18 AM, Xavi Drudis Ferran xdrudis@tinet.cat wrote:
El Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 05:34:06AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton deia:
- i'm thinking of putting the "pass through" card on the campaign, approximate pledge amount $40 (because in low-volume expected it'll be about a $20 BOM), that would turn the laptop housing into a battery-operated screen, keyboard and trackpad for any smartphone, USB-HDMI-dongle-PC, laptop or desktop PC. thoughts appreciated on that one.
Go for it !
I'm not aware of the cost you would have to bring it in before the campaign deadline (is it finished, tested, ready?), but if you can do it, don't doubt.
it's been planned for a long time, i can estimate the BOM (not a lot - about $6 of components) it's the PCB manufacturing that will be a bit more than usual if the quantities are small, even if it's a single-sided 2-layer PCB
I think SOCs are too difficult to choose. All of them have one problem or other. You can't immediately have a dozen CPU cards with different SOCs to pick for. But if you can have a CPU card without CPU, then you dodge the problem nicely.
exactly, and it's kinda cool.
At the same time, having the computer attached by a couple of cables to the laptop is still uncomfortable enough to justify buying a real CPU card. So the pass through card does not lead to less CPU cards sold. It justs justifies buying more laptops.
exactly.
then again you've probably seen the USB-HDMI dongle PC connected to motorola atrix lapdock "version 1" instructables.... you can't use the version 2 as they DRM-locked it.
l.