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"mafm" writes:

The EOMA68 Crowd-funding campaign [crowdsupply.com] launched last month and has just reached $50,000 and so far has 541 backers with 28 days still to go.

The goal of this project is to introduce the idea of being ethically responsible about both the ecological and the financial resources required to design, manufacture, acquire and maintain our personal computing devices. This campaign introduces the world’s first devices built around the EOMA68 standard, a freely-accessible royalty-free, unencumbered hardware standard formulated and tested over the last five years around the ultra-simple philosophy of “just plug it in: it will work”.

Key Aspects:

• Truly Free: Everything is freely licensed
• Modular: Use the same Computer Card across many devices
• Money-saving: Upgrade by replacing Computer Cards, not the whole device
• Long-lived: Designed to be relevant and useful for at least a decade, if not longer
• Ecologically Responsible: Keeps parts out of landfill by repurposing them

There is a live-streamed video from Hope2016 [crowdsupply.com] explaining what it's about, and there is a huge range of discussions and articles online [rhombus-tech.net].

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