ghostpatch
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Just stumbled across this article: http://makezine.com/magazine/building-an-open-source-laptop/
A few awesome people are building an open source/open hardware laptop. Meaning there's hardware documentation, no binary blobs etc. - all the good stuff. Its using a Freescale i.MX6 Quad SoC. They made a few nice design decisions, besides using off the shelf parts, like including an FPGA, two ethernet ports and an LCD adapter (which lets you connect a variety of LCDs to my understanding). The best thing is, they are planning a crowd funding campaign late Febuary or March! I'm so gonna buy it,... probably ; )
Novena man page: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
the board looks pretty "end of the world military grade gear"... he he ; )
A few awesome people are building an open source/open hardware laptop. Meaning there's hardware documentation, no binary blobs etc. - all the good stuff. Its using a Freescale i.MX6 Quad SoC. They made a few nice design decisions, besides using off the shelf parts, like including an FPGA, two ethernet ports and an LCD adapter (which lets you connect a variety of LCDs to my understanding). The best thing is, they are planning a crowd funding campaign late Febuary or March! I'm so gonna buy it,... probably ; )
Novena man page: http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_Main_Page
![novena_full-e1389122192543.jpg](/boards/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fmakezineblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fnovena_full-e1389122192543.jpg%3Fw%3D620%26h%3D481&hash=05e025faed401a6e74c1a5c839810fe6)
![novena_lab.jpg](/boards/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fmakezineblog.files.wordpress.com%2F2014%2F01%2Fnovena_lab.jpg%3Fw%3D620%26h%3D420&hash=cc77476d1ecf200a83a3c45c069e4200)
![novena_pop_clean_sm.jpg](/boards/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fbunniefoo.com%2Fnovena%2Fnovena_pop_clean_sm.jpg&hash=bce80c5bcdd3083119ec9b20464d1a2c)
![novena_back_sm.jpg](/boards/proxy.php?image=http%3A%2F%2Fbunniefoo.com%2Fnovena%2Fnovena_back_sm.jpg&hash=1857162ee99552115b65359b27a83deb)
the board looks pretty "end of the world military grade gear"... he he ; )
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