What inspired your DreamBoard Design?
I am always enthusatic about developing PCB, custom development board for AVR,PIC & ARM(LPC2148) and arduino clones, and other projects.
Beacuse of lack of technology in manufacturing Industrial grade pcb and unavailablity of components in INDIA forced me to stick with LQFP packages, which can be soldered by hand.
I always wanted to develop something like Raspberry PI,Beaglebone etc. But alwas felt discontented due to lack of funds and technology in manufaturing.
Thanks to Element14's "Build Your Own DreamBoard" campaing helped me to visulalize what type of Board i want to make.
What is your job role/background?
I am student in Final Year of Engineering of Electronics and Telecommunication department, from INDIA.
I have experience in PCB designing and manufaturing.I have also worked with Atmel AVR,ARM,PIC,LPC2148,Raspberry PI, Arduino.
After completing my Engineering i will be starting a kickstater event to manufacture my Dreamboard PC64 for price less than 50$
Why should your DreamBoard be the winner?
I designed my dreamboard in such a way that it can be helpful as a learning tool for students as well as a powerfull platform for professional to built and test their system.
The use of 64 bit processor which are compatible with linux as well as andriod lollipop loaded on SD card will help to develop a lot of projects.
On board Wifi will help it to run headless with less wires attached.
Various chip GPIOS, ADC,DAC,UART,CAN,PCI-E will help the board to communicate with the outside word as well as provide facility of expansion of system
Other Onboard Sensors like Magnetic Hall effect sensor, Ultrasonic sensors, Gyroscope, Accelerometer, Temperature will be very usefull in Robotic and Drone Projects.
The Audio I/O will provide facility of onboard audio processing.
The LVDS port and Touchscreen sensor will allow the board to perform as handheld device asn can also be used as Monitorin and Debugging teminal in a robotic project to veiw various parameters.