[Arm-netbook] RFP: Looking for a linux based digital photo frame

[Alejandro Mery]

On 8 July 2012 17:09, Dominique Dumont <domi.dumont at free.fr> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I hope I am not too off-topic for this list.
>
> With a friend of mine, we are working to create our own business. For this we
> need a linux based digital photo frame where we could install our own
> software.
>
> This DFP would need nothing fancy:
> - wifi
> - 7 to 10" 4/3 screen,
> - 800x600 resolution (or more)
> - flush buttons around the frame
> - sd/hc slot
> - no need of HW video decoding
> - 250MB of RAM (or more)
> - any relatively recent cpu able to run hardfloat binaries will do
>
> We are currently at the software development stage and we can prototype the
> frame on whatever board (I've tried on a smarttop and an Archos tablet). We
> target to install next Debian release on this board (i.e. armhf packages)
>
> We now need a plan to got to the next step: reuse or design a dedicated frame
> that could be produced to the thousand, several thousands later if things go
> well. The board needs to be provided with a working kernel (although I'm not
> clear on which minimal version is required to work with Debian wheezy)
>
> At this point, we are stuck. We don't have the knowledge to design the board
> and frame, we don't know who could handle the manufacturing of these DPFs.
>
> Does anyone know who could help us to achieve this ?

sounds like the job for a A13-based tablet