Dear Sirs,
I am new to the balloon board mailing list. I have just started hanging out on
irc.oftc.net #balloon. I had a nice chat with a person there regarding this balloon aleph one project.
As of 27th I will be moving to brazil, one of my goals there is to develop a sub-notebook system that is affordable for poor people,
and this balloon board is just what I have been looking for as I heard it is open - hardware - meaning it may be modified and reproduced.
As of now, I have a proof of concept system for a new operating systems kernel that is implemented into a linux kernel - and the schematics for a new GUI based upon an opensource one, yet the goal of this development is to make a vector based GUI, which will be hardcoded in assembly for the architecture for speed attainment. A freescale coldfire cpu is an intent to add to
the board via expansion port.
Congratulations on all of your achievements, I really want to become a part of this community and get hold of a dev board.
Ofcourse, my achievements will be accessible for other developers, as I am open to such.
I have been running a multimedia company in norway which was also a music label, and we have been playing on the national radio for about 6 months. I have programmed assembly since I was about 9 years old where I started on the zx spectrum 48k, and went on to sme 6502 - then to the motorola 68k arch - and their dsps. Lately I have been working with the apple architecture using the apple developer connection tools and Im a member there.
I assure that I am serious with my intents - but I am mainly interested in adding devices (expansions) to the board and software development. My attainment is highspeed applications utilizing assembly language.
someone could answer me with details regarding getting hold of a board via the next batch produced by cambridge university - as this is a project I want to support.
Regards,
Bjorn Ove.