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OpenJamma board - interest?
yotsuya:
Just gimme a $100 JAMMA board I can play games with, with a front end I can tweak to my content and I'll be happy, Shanghaiguide. :)
sandheaver:
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It's $135.00 + shipping, different class of product. The BeagleBone Black and Cubie are ~ $50.
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No argument, there.
sandheaver:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on May 03, 2013, 07:33:49 pm ---Just gimme a $100 JAMMA board I can play games with, with a front end I can tweak to my content and I'll be happy, Shanghaiguide. :)
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This is my point. You'd have had it by now if it were just an I/O board for an existing platform. SO MUCH EASIER.
yotsuya:
Why stifle creativity?
sandheaver:
--- Quote from: yotsuya on May 03, 2013, 08:38:14 pm ---Why stifle creativity?
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Well, I'm not trying to; I believe in creativity, but I also believe in practicality. shanhaiguide wants to duplicate effort, create an open ARM board when several already exist, and that is just wasted time to me. Our time on Earth is limited; use it creatively, yes, but use it practically where you can. Why spend a year creating something like the BeagleBone Black when the BeagleBone Black exists today and costs a measly $45?
Here's something to get creative thinking about: BY HERSELF, Jeri Ellsworth created the first C64 SoC (System on a Chip) in 2004 2002. She was 30 28, and had almost no formal electrical engineering training, nor chip design training. She thought "ok, I can probably figure this out," then figured it out in 4 months or something ridiculous like that.
If shanghaiguide wants to create a custom-built chip for this, then I would be well & truly on board with that, because that hasn't been done, at least not in an open source manner. One could get truly creative with that kind of ambition.