arm-netbook November 2018

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Laptop LCD Touch Pad: Display KB Layout Idea
by Alexander Ross 25 Mar '19

25 Mar '19

On the laptops lcd touch pad. Here’s a idea for a feature. When leaning new keyboard layout. Say dovrak for example. The trouble is learning where the new keys are. For me at least, one could do with a constant reminder. What if the lcd touch pad displayed the current pressed keys? Maybe on a image of the keyboard, meaning some way of representing where the key you pressed is relative to other keys. So if its the wrong one you can see where the right one is. This info is only displayed while the keyboard is in use. When the touch pad is in use it switches to a relevant display for touch pad use. As for when the user is using not the touch pad nor the keyboard? What then? display keymap? If playing video display: video controls, time left, is internet speed fast enough for this stream? etc.

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libre-riscv, first update
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 05 Dec '18

05 Dec '18

https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class/updates/why-make-a-quad-co… in case anyone's interested, do subscribe to updates. i'll post links here anyway. l.

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I just had a great idea,
by zap 27 Nov '18

27 Nov '18

Luke have you ever considered making a libre earth friendly server? Tell me if you like this idea... :)

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tricky conundrum for the upcoming libre-riscv soc crowdsupply page: image needed
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

ok so to start the new campaign, an image is needed. not a logo, an *image*. something that "represents" a chip and its potential uses and usefulness in a real and concrete way. the problem is: this is a fabless semi-conductor design... there *is* no chip, there *is* nothing to put out there, and because it's just one component that goes *into* products, there *is* no frickin product either! a confusing jumbled utterly boring montage of hypothetical products would be needed. even more of a conundrum: even putting up a picture of some BGA or QFP packaging isn't ok either, because depending on the final pincount, *AND* on large customer orders, the chip will be *custom packaged* and tailored to their needs (i.e. the same die will have far more interfaces added than there are actual pins, and the die re-packaged to suit the customer's needs, leaving many of the pads disconnected internally or connected internally to other dies). if you look at every single campaign there is a nice "image". it's either the first frame of the video, or it's a really cool-looking shot of a PCB, or a 1in cubic robot: https://www.crowdsupply.com/william-weiler-engineering/skoobot logos are out, although not completely ruled out. if anyone would like to convert the attached to PNG (with a variant placing a circle behind the square) that would be really helpful. so this is the challenge: come up with a suitable place-holder image. l.

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libre-riscv shakti m-class talk
by Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojeHX33MPSc cool! i didn't realise this was up, until someone kindly pointed it out, today.

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Should we support libre.computer's efforts at promoting lima?
by David Niklas 02 Nov '18

02 Nov '18

Are they even talking about lima? Or are they giving us the wool-over-eyes treatment? https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/librecomputer/la-frite-open-source-fri… Searching.... Nope, I can't find anything for or against lima. Can anyone else find out? I'm going to try and ask them directly, but evidence would be better. Thanks!

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