[Arm-netbook] making money with EOMA68 cards

[Nick Hardiman]

I’ve been checking up on EOMA68 articles the last few days. Somewhere along the way - perhaps in a podcast - I believe Luke said you can make money from hardware.

How would that work? Perhaps something along these lines?

If a home tinkerer wants to experiment, or an artist wants to explore this new medium, or a business student want a first mover’s advantage, they do something like this.

* Come up with the idea for a gizmo. I see someone’s already compiled a list of ideas at http://rhombus-tech.net/community_ideas/.
* Order a card via https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
* Buy an idiots guide to soldering and a bag of parts.
* Spend a few months burning holes in tables and building prototypes.
* Take delivery of the new card, plug it in and make sure everything works.
* Sell the new gizmo online.

The EOMA68 standard creates a demand for new products. Unplugging the computer card from your house, plugging it into your car, unplugging it at work and plugging it into something else, means there must be the things to plug it into.

The hard work has already been done. The hardware exists courtesy of the mobile phone industry, the software exists courtesy of decades of free software, and the compute package will exist courtesy of Luke and co.







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