Re: [sugar] Sugar on the BeagleBoard using the OpenEmbedded toolkit.

[David Farning <dfarning@sugarlabs.org>]

On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 13:14 -0700, Edward Cherlin wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 3:57 AM, Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Op 22 aug 2008, om 02:29 heeft David Farning het volgende geschreven:
> >
> >> Welcome to the Sugar on the BeagleBoard project.  It seems that we have
> >> all of the pieces in place to do a port.
> 
> Very good. Thank you.
> 
> I see that BeagleBoards list at $149. Do you have any idea of quantity
> pricing? Apparently TI sells them only through Digikey, which only
> gives single-unit prices on its site. I can see applications for data
> acquisition and control worldwide, as well as for teaching embedded
> systems development. I am thinking of possibilities for placement of
> systems through microfinance, assuming that we can find and document
> ways to increase income using BeagleBoard+Sugar more efficiently than
> by other methods.

The BeagleBoard is a development platform for introducing developers to
the OMAP35x family of processors.  I don't believe that it was meant for
endusers.  The interesting question I my mind is, 'Who will be the first
to leverage the chipset into low cost thin clients or laptops for use
classrooms?'

thanks
dfarning