On: Making open source hardware design a reality

[agumonkey]

Hey, it's the man behind the parallela chip (and the 100$ sbc)

He worked hard to deliver his kickstarter. Happy to see him still active in the field.

[llaolleh → agumonkey]

I'm not as hopeful as you. That Parallella chip went nowhere and had a ton of issues.

[adapteva → llaolleh]

Hey...this was just me sharing a list of people who have done great work in open source...I don't see why you have to drag Parallella into this...still since you brought it up, Parallella was shipped to 10K customers and used in 200 research publications. What's your bar for success?

[agumonkey → adapteva]

Man, I'm sorry I diverted the thread onto this.

To go back to the topic, do you know people doing videos or podcasts about open hardware ?

[agumonkey → llaolleh]

What kind of issues ? I didn't go far but they shipped something that worked enough not to cause instant drama and be used by low level programmers for a while. I'm surprised but I'm not knowledgeable enough.

[gnufx → agumonkey]

It was touted (or at least referred to?) as a "supercomputing" device, which it definitely wasn't, though I don't remember the numbers.

[adapteva → gnufx]

I find it kind of weird how many people were offended by our use of the term, supercomputing. The actual specs were on the front page of the kickstarter from day one. Not sure what people were expecting from a $100 SBC? Kind of interesting to note that the Parallella beat out the multi million dollar Thinking Machines of the 1990s in terms of performance...