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by samcrawford 4329 days ago
Great effort, lovely little device. Building your own hardware is not easy to do cost effectively!

But a few niggles:

- Quoting RAM and flash in Mbits? Whilst that may be the norm for buying components, I'd argue most people familiar with OpenWrt and the Raspberry-Pi generation are going to miss this detail and think "Oh wow, 512MB RAM and 128MB flash!", when in fact it's 1/8th of that.

- There's some mention of a standard shield, but no information on what it includes or when it will be available.

- Like others have said, that scrolling on the website is extremely annoying.

Regardless, I will definitely be buying one anyway.

2 comments

The Mbit thing is quite common in the embedded world. When I saw this my first thought was "oh wow, twice the specs of my current favorite OpenWRT hack platform (the TL-703N) at about the same price and with gpio exposed. Awesome.)"
Hmmm I'd agree it's common when you're talking about components with hardware developers, but when you're pitching it to software developers/users then RAM/flash is almost uniformly referenced in megabytes. Take for example:

- OpenWrt's table of hardware page: http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start

- Raspberry Pi specs: http://www.raspberrypi.org/product/model-b/

- Minnowboard Max specs: http://www.minnowboard.org/meet-minnowboard-max/

- Beaglebone Black specs: http://beagleboard.org/black

Oh and I love the reference to TL-WR703N, that little thing was pretty special! I was always disappointed by the MR3020, which is basically identical but a lot larger for no obvious reason.

I never see Mbit in the embedded world when talking about RAM or Flash. I always see KB or MB, never Mbit.
Agreed, bits should only be used for bandwidth.
I once saw an SD card sold as "8gb" and thought it terribly expensive for that much capacity.
At least it wasn't "mb". I am not even sure how that would work.