New kid on the block - meet OLinuXino

Former Member over 13 years ago

Looks like certain berry-constant named device has opened Pandora's box, Olimex Ltd. just announced another low cost Linux SBC, but this time it is going to be OSHW and they are looking for developers that could help them round up the device for general use. Ok, enough talk, here's announcement - http://olimex.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/imx233-olinuxino-development-started-today/

PS read the article comments, this is not going to be the last OSHW SBC by Olimex

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fustini over 13 years ago

Very interesting - personally my main interest in the Raspberry Pi is to use it is a low cost Linux embedded system. I don't particularly care about the amazing GPU for my projects, so I think that OLinuXino could suit my needs better, especially if it does a good job of breaking out I/O.

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Drew
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

schematics were updated today on github, check them out. url has changed though, it is https://github.com/OLIMEX/OLINUXINO now.
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Thanks, 512MB SDRAM - I gladly trade the advantage of the Broadcom SoC's GPU for that. The GPIO header looks appealing.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

unfortunately those are Mbits and not MBytes (in MBytes that translates to 64MB) i.MX233 in LQFP package does not support more than that and chosen package is LQFP just so that design is replicatable by any avid hobbyist.
On more optimistic note, this is only first low cost Linux ARM board planned by Olimex and hence it is least powerful.
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fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

Darn, good catch. I suppose that would be a lot for a low cost embedded Linux system.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

not just that, Olimex wants to sell those boards for 30EUR a piece and not to be in red with that, so every cent counts.
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Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to fustini

not just that, Olimex wants to sell those boards for 30EUR a piece and not to be in red with that, so every cent counts.
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