The MinnowBoard is a Low-Cost, Open Hardware Single-Board Computer (Video)

Posted by Roblimo on Thursday September 26, 2013 @07:00AM from the open-source-software-is-followed-by-open-source-hardware-like-summer-follows-spring dept.

Out in the Northeast Texas town of Ft. Worth, a company called CircuitCo started making something they called the BeagleBoard -- an open source hardware single-board computer for educators and experimenters. Now, with help and support from Intel, they're making and supporting the Atom-based MinnowBoard, which is also open source, and comes with Angstrom Linux to help experimenters get started with it. David Anders is the Senior Embedded Systems Engineer at CircuitCo. Slashdot's Timothy Lord met David at LinuxCon North America 2013 in New Orleans and made this video of him talking about the recently-released MinnowBoard and the more mature BeagleBoard.

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Why? $200 = Better Atom Board+RAM on Newegg by ilikenwf · 2013-09-26 07:23 · Score: 5, Interesting

If I wanted a freaking atom board, I'd buy one for $100 and load it up with another $100 worth of RAM.

I'm going to keep complaining about the fact that there's not a low power, low cost ARM platform out there ($200 or less) with hardware SATA RAID support. While the cubieboard is the best ATM and supports port multipliers, it's really too bad that the thing can't use both devices attached to the multiplier at the same time. All I want is a hybrid NAS and home server that has 2-4 cores and 2-4gb RAM. Size isn't really a factor but power usage is...

Anyone know of a platform I've not looked at?