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The crowdfunding campaign was successful. Yay! 
In addition, someone on the mailing list just posted an idea for a future case ("shell"), a "subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard". There's also a wiki page that describes this idea. Sounds a bit like an N900, doesn't it?
In any case, it will be interesting to follow what comes of this.
In addition, someone on the mailing list just posted an idea for a future case ("shell"), a "subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard". There's also a wiki page that describes this idea. Sounds a bit like an N900, doesn't it?
In any case, it will be interesting to follow what comes of this.
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It's a crowdfunding campaign for the first products that follow the new EOMA-68 standard, i.e., a "computer card" and some "shells" to plug it into.
EOMA-68 will make it much simpler and thus more feasible for small communities to make products. As an example, here's a description of a tablet that one may be able to do as a single-sided 2-layer PCB.
More details about the crowdfunding campaign: http://rhombus-tech.net/crowdsupply/
The EOMA-68 standard: http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modu...ecture/EOMA-68
The computer cards reuse the legacy PCMCIA form factor. For size comparison, I've attached some photos of a random PCMCIA card and my N900. Imagine upgrading your future N900-style device with a new CPU/GPU/memory combo by simply swapping cards such as this.