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eoma-* is not a dev board. you can _make_ dev boards from eoma-*. devboards like hummingboard is only, is just for you diy robot. eoma-68/cf is for your work & play & make. for most of your computing needs in a human life. completely different markets.
however eoma-* with a devboard or to call it a name that nudges towards a slightly~ different way of thinking: a improvising board, something that enables you to create, something for which a nice shiny device doesn't exist as well a computer for you robot, fireworks controller, etc.
a improvising board enables you to easily create, a dev board enables you to do x+y=z urrggh unless your a techy who likes getting into those details or the manage the maintenance job of maintaining software, waiting for a board of the right size,specs,soc when you want to upgrade it (for example your project is a diy handheld pocket computer) what a pain that all is, does not enable me to create a diy handheld pocket comptuer, enables/forces me to be a deep developer - I don't want that additional work.
so the mini desktop board is perhaps a improvise board, it's not a shiny device in it's self but it enables you to improvise and turn you tv into a media center, just stick it on the back of your tv. It doesn't have gpio but then this not for you robot. it has vga instead of lcd for flips sake. use a different improvise board that is more suitable for enabling you to create your robot. notice your using the same platform for a media center and a robot. these completely different groups err can benefit from each other, improvements made by the people who are more technical go back into the same platform.
for the first time with eoma-* it's economically viable to groups to produce a improvise board dedicated to a robot, tv media center, quardchopter, etc. this reduces the barrier to entry - the time it takes, the skills needed to make it and I guess help reduce the cost of making these things if in bigger enough numbers. also why are you building these things? is it because it cheeper then buying pre-built/existing product? well you love a improvise quardchopter eoma-* board as all you have to do is connect the motors via a plug and socket, the usb wifi dongle, cheep 3rd hand usb webcam and strap it to the (3d printed) frame - done, that was easy :D
image a load of these improvise kits or prebuilt things if the cost works out or then again why buy a per-built quardchopter (which would be more bulky than a non-prebuilt thing and so more expensive shipping) when you can print the parts and buy the electronics goodie bag and put it together and fly it within a day?! anyway imagine a occupy moment-like protest. people arrive with there 3d printers or pre printed parts and a hole crowed of newbies put a army of quardchopters together and put them to work documenting, vidioing the protest, providing internet via wifi (?) to every one. these newbies easily control it with there smartphonething thanks to the floss software thx to fantastic people who wrote it. btw the software on the eoma-* card was just "sudo apt-get install quardchopter" (you can install the quardchopter package using a gui package manger on you tablet then you swap the card into the quardchopter !) how easy and cool is that! wow :D :D
eoma-* enables you to live, work, play, create & do, oh btw using the same platform. this was a example of create.