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When I worked for QuIC [0] I had a chance to ask Rob Chandhok how I could connect maker spaces [1] to Qualcomm so they could buy SoCs and all the glue from Qual

by RyJones 10y ago

When I worked for QuIC [0] I had a chance to ask Rob Chandhok how I could connect maker spaces [1] to Qualcomm so they could buy SoCs and all the glue from Qualcomm on tape with data sheets without an NDA. He put me in touch with someone who eventually hooked me up with a Canadian VAR who sells (or sold) some sort of dev kit q10 or something for a grand a pop. It is a market that Qualcomm just doesn't care about. I was upbraided for using non-Qualcomm silicon for a demo - I asked where the Qualcomm version of the RPi was, and that was that. [0] https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2010/04/07/why-qualcomm-innovation-center-quic-investing-webkit https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2010/04/07/why-qualcomm-in... [1] http://metrixcreatespace.com http://metrixcreatespace.com and others

matmann2001 10y ago
Were the Dragonboards not a thing then? https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/dragonboard-410c https://developer.qualcomm.com/hardware/dragonboard-410c
- wolfgke 10y ago
  At least for me Dragonboards are not suitable since they have no ethernet port (this is probably due to the fact that the 96boards specification for "Consumer Edition (CE)" (http://www.96boards.org/ce-specification http://www.96boards.org/ce-specification from http://www.96boards.org/specifications/ http://www.96boards.org/specifications/) does not require ethernet, but WiFi (which I consider as a bad idea)).