Last chance to own dream Open Source Hardware laptop

Only 4 days left to back the Novena open source hardware laptop on CrowdSuppy:

A new open-hardware computing platform, flexible and powerful, designed for use as a desktop, laptop, or standalone board. Novena is a 1.2GHz, Freescale quad-core ARM architecture computer closely coupled with a Xilinx FPGA. It's designed for users who care about open source, and/or want to modify and extend their hardware: all the documentation for the PCBs is open and free to download, the entire OS is buildable from source, and it comes with a variety of features that facilitate rapid prototyping

I backed it for the main board ($500), "buy jon a 6 pack" (for open source graphics driver) and a tshirt Please back the back too so we can get these awesome streach goals, too.

Funding ends May 18, 2014 at 11:59pm PDT

STRETCH GOALS






Partnering with Jon Nettleton for Open 2D/3D Graphics Drivers: 
+$50k ($300k total)
We're excited to announce a partnership with Jon Nettleton, an expert on Linux graphics drivers, to enable 2d/3d graphics drivers on Novena. Help support this stretch goal by pledging to the campaign and buying Jon a six-pack for his efforts. See full details in the Stretch Goals update.





General-Purpose Breakout Board: 
+$100k ($350k total)
The GPBB buffers 16 FPGA outputs and 8 FPGA inputs to be compatible with either 3.3V or 5V, gang-selectable via software. It also provides six 10-bit analog inputs (up to 200ksps sample rate) and two 10bit analog outputs (~100ksps max rate), all broken out to an easy-to-use 40-pin male 0.1" dual-row header. See full details in the Stretch Goals update.





ROMulator Breakout Board: 
+$150k ($400k total)
If we can raise an additional $50k over the previous tier, we'll include a ROMulator Breakout Board (in addition to the General Purpose Breakout Board) with every piece of hardware shipped. See full details in theStretch Goals update.





MyriadRF Software Defined Radio: 
+$250k ($500k total) or >200 desktop+laptop+heirloom backers
We're very excited to offer the possibility of teaming up with MyriadRF, to provide a custom-made SDR solution for Novena. Their open hardware SDR solution operates in all the major radio bands, including LTE, CDMA, TD-CDMA, W-CDMA, WiMAX, 2G and many more. See full details in the Stretch Goals update.

Cheers,

Drew