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Open hardware/source laptop reaches funding goal
- officialjunk 12y ago>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.
- jedahan 12y agoI'm in for one (laptop version), but wondering just how close one could get off-the-shelf. If you had $1999 to build your own version of the novena, thats as portable/powerful/free as you can make it, what could you make? minimum requirements: 13" 1080p IPS, xilinx spartan 6 fpga or better, quad core 1.2Ghz cpu, dual 1gb nic, usb otg support, high speed gpio, 240gb intel 530 ssd freedom bonuses: hackable case, replaceable battery, open source bios/eproms, open source gpu My best guess is some older thinkpad + xilinx fpga eval kit + beaglebone black + usb3 gigabit ethernet dongles will still cost around $1600 but have a faster cpu/gpu and memory, but wouldn't be nearly as free/open source as this one. Or, how much would you really save trying to start with the $500 board and make the laptop-tier version?