[Arm-netbook] EOMA-68 Carrier Board Concept

[mike.valk at gmail.com]

2013/8/15 Christopher Thomas <christopher at firemothindustries.com>:
> Good Morning everyone,
>
>    I spoke to a few of you recently and explained a little of what I had in
<snip>
> the works for our project. open to opinions.

Great news. This board would also make an excellent base for a multi disk NAS.

What I'd like to see added: A SATA multiplier.
As this board is the jump to a desktop PC, One usually wants/needs
multiple SATA devices. A optical drive and a hard-disk. Perhaps a
second hard-disk for backups. An E-Sata port (that's just a cable
away) for hot-swapping.

Also a few pinouts for SATA/Molex power connectors . This would
eliminate the need for a full ATX power supply. And laptop style
adaptors with SATA power connectors are nowhere to be found and need
custom builds and result in two power supplies.

Add and option to recieve power from a ATX power supply. For those
wanting to convert there old pc's or want a cheap and widely available
power supply.

Further perhaps a bigger USB hub: 7ports or more whould be nice. Oh
wait chaining two 4port hubs leaves 7 ports, Doh. I always found 7 to
be such an odd number of ports. Also leave the internal USB as pin
headers. That way standard enclosures(parts) can simply tap into the
pins. And pin to USB-Female are widely avaible. USB-Male to pin header
are not very common.

Personnaly I'd stick to the STM32x for board I/O.
1. Hacker community is already gearing up to those ARM.
2. You can reuse code from the flying squirrel
3. The EOMA68 (b/h)ackers already have info/knowledge on the STM32x
from the flying squirrel.

Good luck