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Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively! But a few niggles: - Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst

Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively! But a few niggles: - Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst that may be the norm for buying components, I'd argue most people familiar with OpenWrt and the Raspberry-Pi generation are going to miss this detail and think "Oh wow, 512MB RAM and 128MB flash!", when in fact it's 1/8th of that. - There's some mention of a standard shield, but no information on what it includes or when it will be available. - Like others have said, that scrolling on the website is extremely annoying. Regardless, I will definitely be buying one anyway.

billpg 12y ago
I once saw an SD card sold as "8gb" and thought it terribly expensive for that much capacity.
- chrisBob 12y ago
  At least it wasn't "mb". I am not even sure how that would work.
noonespecial 12y ago
The Mbit thing is quite common in the embedded world. When I saw this my first thought was "oh wow, twice the specs of my current favorite OpenWRT hack platform (the TL-703N) at about the same price and with gpio exposed. Awesome.)"
- samcrawford 12y ago
  Hmmm I'd agree it's common when you're talking about components with hardware developers, but when you're pitching it to software developers/users then RAM/flash is almost uniformly referenced in megabytes. Take for example: - OpenWrt's table of hardware page: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start - Raspberry Pi specs: http://www.raspberrypi.org/product/model-b/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/product/model-b/ - Minnowboard Max specs: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/ http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/ - Beaglebone Black specs: http://beagleboard.org/black http://beagleboard.org/black Oh and I love the reference to TL-WR703N, that little thing was pretty special! I was always disappointed by the MR3020, which is basically identical but a lot larger for no obvious reason.
- hardolaf 12y ago
  I never see Mbit in the embedded world when talking about RAM or Flash. I always see KB or MB, never Mbit.
  - guelo 12y ago
    Agreed, bits should only be used for bandwidth.

billpg 12y ago

I once saw an SD card sold as "8gb" and thought it terribly expensive for that much capacity.

chrisBob 12y ago
At least it wasn't "mb". I am not even sure how that would work.

noonespecial 12y ago

The Mbit thing is quite common in the embedded world. When I saw this my first thought was "oh wow, twice the specs of my current favorite OpenWRT hack platform (the TL-703N) at about the same price and with gpio exposed. Awesome.)"

samcrawford 12y ago
Hmmm I'd agree it's common when you're talking about components with hardware developers, but when you're pitching it to software developers/users then RAM/flash is almost uniformly referenced in megabytes. Take for example: - OpenWrt's table of hardware page: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start - Raspberry Pi specs: http://www.raspberrypi.org/product/model-b/ http://www.raspberrypi.org/product/model-b/ - Minnowboard Max specs: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/ http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/ - Beaglebone Black specs: http://beagleboard.org/black http://beagleboard.org/black Oh and I love the reference to TL-WR703N, that little thing was pretty special! I was always disappointed by the MR3020, which is basically identical but a lot larger for no obvious reason.
hardolaf 12y ago
I never see Mbit in the embedded world when talking about RAM or Flash. I always see KB or MB, never Mbit.
- guelo 12y ago
  Agreed, bits should only be used for bandwidth.