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Monday, November 25, 2013
Some Greek From Your Local Geek
"The hardware of Improv is extremely capable: a dual-core ARM® Cortex-A7 System on Chip
(SoC) running at 1Ghz, 1 GB of RAM, 4 GB of on-board NAND flash and a
powerful OpenGL ES GPU. To access all of this hardware goodness there
are a variety of ports: 2 USB2 ports (one fullsize host, one micro OTG),
SD card reader, HDMI, ethernet (10/100, though the feature card has a
Gigabit connector; more on that below), SATA, i2c, VGA/TTL and 8 GPIO
pins. The entire device weighs less than 100 grams, is passively cooled
and fits in your hand. Improv comes pre-installed with Mer OS,
sporting a recent Linux kernel, systemd, and a wide variety of software
tools. By default it boots into console, so if you are making a
headless device you needn't worry about extra overhead running that you
don't need. If you are going to hook it up to a screen (or two), then
you have an amazing starting point with choices such as X.org, Wayland,
Qt4, Qt5 and a full complement of KDE libraries and Plasma Workspaces.
Improv takes advantage of the open EOMA68 standard to deliver a unique
design: the SoC, RAM and storage live on one card (the 'CPU card'), the
feature ports are on a PCB it docks with (the 'feature board'). The two
dock securely together with the CPU card sitting under the feature board
nestled in a pair of rails; they are undocked from each other by
pushing a mechanical ejector button."
Check out the specs and pictures. The card is available now for $75. Improv is open hardware, with the schematics licensed under the GPL and available soon.
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