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.
>
> http://imgur.com/a/z98zJ
>
> 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:
> 1. Make the battery exchangeable.
> 2. Reuse cheap cellphone batteries (mass produced) in adapter sleeves.
> 2. Make the network interface exchangeable.
> 3. 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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