Crowd Supply and Earth-friendly EOMA68 Computing Devices

Eco friendly and upcycled fully freedom-respecting upgradeable computer.


Host systems:

Barebone:

$15

"USB + HDMI Cable Set for Standalone Operation"

Just a cable to attach any eoma68 card to the back of a monitor, you also need keyboard and mouse.

Desktop housing:

$55

"Micro Desktop Housing for Computer Card"

You need a screen, any eoma68 card, keyboard and mouse with this.

Tiny size: 4.5” x 4.5” x 0.5”
EOMA68 Computer Card slot (user-upgradeable)
2x USB2 ports
VGA port
Micro-SD Card slot
Standard 5.5 mm DC Jack, powered by anything from 7 V up to 21 V
Laser-cut wooden case

Laptop:

"Laptop Housing Kit for Computer Card"

15.6” 1366 x 768 LCD
10 Ah battery (approximately 6-8 hours running time)
Only 1.1 kg weight
EOMA68 Computer Card slot (user-upgradeable)
Full-sized QWERTY Keyboard including numberpad
3 USB2 ports (2 internal, 1 external)
Special internal compartment (easily accessible, 8 mm x 90 mm x 60 mm)
Micro-SD Card slot (takes 256 GB MicroSD cards)
1W Stereo speakers, built-in Mic
CM108AH USB Audio with stereo headphone socket
4.3” Capacitive touch panel and back-lit LCD (instead of mouse trackpad)
STM32F072 Embedded Controller with firmware under GPLv3 license
Full schematics available.
3D-printed casework design files available under GPLv3 license
Eco-friendly plywood panels

Options for Laptop

$450

1. PIY Print It Yourself, (comes with most parts, and you also need an eoma68 card)

$500

2. PFY Printed For You, (comes with all printed parts ready to assemble, you also need an eoma68 card.

$1200

3. CAL Completely Assembled Laptop, (comes readily assembled with eoma68 card.)

Colours for PFY and CAL:

  1. PLA / Metallic Silver
  2. PLA / Alternating Green and Black
  3. PLA / "Rainbow" lucky dip
  4. PLA / Clear and transparent
  5. Resin / Black (this option costs 150$ extra)

Cards:

$65

Libre Tea Computer card:

OS: Parabola GNU/Linux-libre

Practically Perfect Computer card:

OS: Debian GNU/Linux

Numero Uno

OS: Devuan

Getting Ahead Computer card:

OS: Fedora 24


Timeline:

  • 2010
  • Design - Prototype stage
  • 2016
  • July:
  • Start of campaign
    • Sept:
  • (After campaign end)
  • Visit battery company in Hong Kong
  • Pick 3D printing company. Rigorous testing of materials, ethics and sustainability.
  • Pick up components personally in China
  • 6-8 weeks, Mass production prototype run of 10 PCB boards
  • Oversee production personally in Taiwan
  • 2017
  • Jan:
  • Volume production
  • Feb:
  • Testing PCBs (End of Jan/Feb, after Chinese new year)
  • March:
  • Packaging and shipping out rewards or pickup of imports from postal service in Europe
  • Checking kits(?)"

Creator: Helped free resources from A10.

  • IRC : link ?
  • Mailing list: link http://lists.phcomp.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/arm-netbook
  • E-mail : link ?