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Titulo: The Balloon Project
Link:
http://balloonboard.org/
Descripción del proyecto
Balloon is an Open hardware development board intended for anyone to use in their projects. Balloon should be viewed as a versatile 'computer component'. Most projects need their own bit of hardware or IO. Balloon means you can concentrate on that part and add it on to the base Balloon.
Desarrolladores
Steve Wiseman - Originator, Designer.
Y otros.
Modelo de Licencia
Everyone has the right to manufacture, sell, and distribute Balloon boards unchanged, however populated, and for any price (and there are several obvious levels of population that make sense, either as standalone boards or as components to be plugged in to a motherboard). Everyone has the right to distribute the schematics unchanged in PDF form, and the manufacturing files (Gerbers, drill info, pick-and-place info, BOMs; everything needed to manufacture the boards)
If Balloon does not meet your specific requirements, then please build a motherboard for it. Design files for template motherboards are available as Protel (and maybe other) sources. If you'd like to suggest changes or improvements for future versions, please do so via the mailing list, which is where new editions get thrashed out.
The Protel design of this board is not published, and remains copyright © Steve Wiseman, all right's reserved. This is to avoid the proliferation of dozens of slightly-different Balloon-a-like boards, which would destroy the whole concept of Balloon being a standard, low cost, easily available, easily manufacturable, board for the masses.
Descripción del hardware disponible
Balloon has the CPU, RAM, NOR and NAND Flash, serial and USB client and host, Smartmedia and Compact Flash, IO header, buffered expansion bus and a CPLD. It is particularly suitable for battery-powered devices, wearable computing, low-power instrument monitoring, robotic control and university or corporate research needing physically small, lightweight (<30g), low-power(<1W), high-performance computing.
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