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posted by on Saturday February 04 2017, @06:47AM   Printer-friendly
from the you-can-change-more-than-the-battery dept.

Olimex just announced the avaliability of their TERES I DIY laptop. The name is from king of ancient times that ruled in the area of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Return of the netbook? At least once the products stop being out of stock.

This kit lets you assemble a laptop with quad core Allwinner A64 (64 bit ARM Cortex A53 cores), 1GB RAM, 11.6" inch screen 1366 x 768, 4GB eMMC, WiFi & BT, camera, 7000 mAh battery in just under a Kg. Avaliable in black or white, with US keyboard showing a nice Tux. In the assembly instructions you can see two USB ports, HDMI, 3.5 headphone jack, microSD slot, mic and side speakers. Multiple modular cards to update or fix as needed. No fans. Current price 225 EUR incl VAT.

AC opinion: the RAM is soldered and small for modern times, but it could become a plataform upon which to improve without having to throw away everything. Olimex already lists some ideas for future add ons, like FPGA based Logic Analyzer, in the instructions. All spare parts are listed already in shop, some with PCB files (Open Source Hardware, developed with KiCAD) for those wanting to do custom versions.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @11:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @11:07AM (#462810)

    Blimey, how many donkey's years ago was that? I thought I was doing well when I got Bulgarian red for £1.89/bottle (750ml), and that was years and years ago. They'd not long stopped being communist.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @09:16PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04 2017, @09:16PM (#462935)

    Bulgaria never was anything like Communist.
    They were a Soviet satellite.
    Like the Soviet Union, their economy was top-down State Capitalism.
    Their government was top-down Stalinism.

    Even the Soviet Union, by 1924, when Lenin died and totalitarian Stalin took over, had made it clear that they weren't bottom-up and weren't about The Workers. [google.com]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @03:35AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @03:35AM (#463006)

      You're trotskyite revisionist apologist for capitalism in sheep's clothing! Collectivism has to be enforced from the top down because otherwise kulaks and profiteers will subvert the equitable distribution of production by their unjust exploitation of the workers! Comrade Stalin warned us about your type!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @04:50AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 05 2017, @04:50AM (#463021)

        The 100,000 worker-owners of Mondragon.
        The Maracora law and the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of worker-owned co-ops in Emilia-Romagna.
        The co-op farm of Marinaleda.
        The Shakers, the Oneida community, the Amana community.
        The Paris Commune of 1871.
        Barcelona, 1936-1937.

        You are simply wrong.

        -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]