2014-02-18 17:31 GMT+01:00 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton lkcl@lkcl.net:
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:07 PM, mike.valk@gmail.com mike.valk@gmail.com wrote:
L.S.
Just put some thoughts to paper.
Just a mock-up, nothing thoroughly engineered
not bad though. what you got that in - blender?
Sketchup, Have not made that many flight hours in blender to be fast enough.
i kinda like it. it'd have a deliberately chunky feel, easy to hold. thickness would be around 12mm, unless you left the back of the CPU card exposed (then you get about 2mm back).
Well I made a "window" gap. So you can see which card/battary is in it and to help with heat dissipation
Notes:
- Make the battery exchangeable.
- Reuse cheap cellphone batteries (mass produced) in adapter sleeves.
- Make the network interface exchangeable.
- Make adapter sleeves for the most common cellphone batteries.
Some benefits:
- Batteries have differing lifespans than screens/cpu's/network systems.
- Battery technology evolves rapidly.
- Every new cellphone has a different battery format. Cheap sleeves can
be
made to accommodate the cheapest available battery.
- Wireless/Wired network technologies are abundand and evolve rapidly.
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with a wired variant
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with an new network technology bg/n/ac
5ghz channels etc
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with an roaming network service, 2G,
2.5G, 3G, 4G.
- The wifi dongle does not need to be pre bundeled. User can choose
his/hers
own
... and all of those, being rather power-hungry
Did you mean the generic Wifi sticks or the cell-service sticks?
Because for the EOMA card we have to stick with the usb-wifi either externally or internally.
, if the battery is interchangeable as well then that's absolutely fine because people can consider carrying around a 2nd battery. or get an "extended" one specially for those circumstances.
- The wifi dongle can be exchanged with a usb camera low or highend
true. or usb memory stick. etc.
The bottom USB slots can be used as a connector for charging stations, docking stations, keyboard docks, dual screen, etc.
P.S. It's been awfully quite around here.....
yeah i know. we need people to place orders for CPU cards. and quickly.
I had the idea lingering for weeks and finally found the time/energy to put it work. So buying an eoma card is not really beneficial to me or you, other than funding, at the moment. And I can afford to buy it as shelf filling at the moment.
How about promoting it on the Sunxi mailinglist/wiki. They sprouted from here so why not?
l.
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