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

[Walter Bender]

The folks who have been interested in the OLPC for health may be interested.

-walter

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, David Farning <dfarning at sugarlabs.org> wrote:
> 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 at 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
>
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