[MinnowBoard] Jetsam Lure (mPCIE Lure) availabiliy ???

Carles Perello carles.perello at gmail.com
Thu Apr 23 13:52:07 UTC 2015


concerning the Flotsam Lure

I was thinking on manufacturating the board in PCB-POOL (europe).

If we are up to 10, each board will go for under euro 20.

The main difficulty will be to solder the high speed socket.



On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Berth-Olof Bergman <
bo.bergman at winzenttech.com> wrote:

> We recently completed a production release of our legacy BIOS for Bay
> Trail quad core (E3845). The BIOS initializes all hardware and will run any
> operating system 16-bit to 64 bit. I did a benchmark tests using MSDOS 5.0
> booted from eMMC. The boot time is measured at the point where the MBR has
> been read and control is handed over to the MBR code. The results has been
> measured with the time stamp counter.
>
> Cold boot with training and programming flash sectors...: 1.621 seconds
> Cold boot without training..........................................: 0.989 seconds
> Boot without power cycling (using reset button).............: 0.945 seconds
> Warm boot using CTR + ALT + DEL............................: 0.468 seconds
>
> We are currently adopting our BIOS to Minnowboard Max. We have good
> connections in Asia, so it's possible to specify our own board and get them
> manufactured. I will look into it.
>
> B-O Bergman
> Winzent Technologies
>
>
> 23 apr 2015 kl. 15:31 skrev David Byte <dbyte at suse.com>:
>
>  I would be interested in a quad core board with 4GB of RAM (or give me a
> SODIMM slot..)
>
>
>
> David Byte
> Sr. Technology Strategist
> Alliances and Integrated Systems
> SUSEdbyte at suse.com
> (P)918.528.4422www.suse.com https://www.suse.com/partners/integrated-systems/
>
> On 4/23/2015 8:28 AM, Scott Guthrie wrote:
>
>  Yeah, my soldering skills aren't quite up to that, on the other hand, if
> you got enough people to be interested, a lot of the small board houses
> will do assembly too.  I've used Screaming Circuits (
> http://www.screamingcircuits.com/)  at work a few times for small runs.
> I don't recall how much the assembly runs were, but the board costs were
> inexpensive for certain.
>
>  Scott
>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Carles Perello <carles.perello at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I am in the same boat...
>>
>> and thought, what about bulding them? If we are a bunch we can order the
>> PCB's at a fair price. Components for the Floatsam are $20 at Mouser.
>>
>> Anybody interested?
>>   On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Berth-Olof Bergman <
>> bo.bergman at winzenttech.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes. I agree. But I needed them. The lures was $199.80 and Fedex freight
>>> was $159.02 (to Sweden). Paid for more than 11 weeks ago and order still in
>>> confirmed state.
>>>
>>>  23 apr 2015 kl. 14:20 skrev Scott Guthrie <scottgu3 at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>   $352.82?  for 4 mSATA lures?  WTF? That's ridiculous!
>>>
>>>  OK.
>>>
>>>  Please retract my previous statement.  I wouldn't order from them
>>> either.
>>>
>>>  S.
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 8:04 AM, Berth-Olof Bergman <
>>> bo.bergman at winzenttech.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> My credit card was charged $358.82 for freight and 4 mSATA lures in
>>>> February 2. Nothing received yet and they do not reply on email. I would
>>>> order a lot of stuff I need from them if I could trust them.
>>>>
>>>>  23 apr 2015 kl. 13:41 skrev Scott Guthrie <scottgu3 at gmail.com>:
>>>>
>>>>    I ordered my Flotsam though them, and I received it fine.  They
>>>> also sent the replacement Flotsam when the first had a reversed component
>>>> with no difficulties whatsoever.
>>>>
>>>>  YMMV
>>>>
>>>>  Scott
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 7:35 AM, nb <nb at dagami.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I've wrote once, 2 or 3 months ago, to technodisti from their website
>>>>> about shipping cost.
>>>>> I'm still waiting a response...
>>>>>
>>>>> > Le 23 avr. 2015 à 11:33, Berth-Olof Bergman <
>>>>> bo.bergman at winzenttech.com> a écrit :
>>>>> >
>>>>> > The Jetsam lure will only be available from Technodisti. I don't
>>>>> know if they have ever delivered anything. I do know however, that several
>>>>> people have ordered and payed for products and never got them. That even
>>>>> includes Minnowboard Max! People have been trying to contact them with no
>>>>> luck, so you should probably avoid them all together.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I think the lure is available from Mouser Electronics. They are
>>>>> reliable and delivers all over there world.
>>>>> >
>>>>> >> 22 apr 2015 kl. 23:51 skrev Daniel Reagan <
>>>>> daniel_reagan at student.uml.edu>:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I'm looking to open up a line of communication via WiFi direct.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> usb ports are taken up and I don't want to add the weight of a
>>>>> splitter(UAV
>>>>> >> project) so I was thinking mini PCIe card.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> does anyone have an knowledge of when the Jetsam lure we be
>>>>> available?
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> other suggestions to incorporate wifi will be appreciated as well.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> as always, thank you for your support
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >>
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