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I think this may lead to future FOSS-friendly N900-style devices.

It's a crowdfunding campaign for the first products that follow the new EOMA-68 standard, i.e., a "computer card" and some "shells" to plug it into.

EOMA-68 will make it much simpler and thus more feasible for small communities to make products. As an example, here's a description of a tablet that one may be able to do as a single-sided 2-layer PCB.

More details about the crowdfunding campaign: http://rhombus-tech.net/crowdsupply/

The EOMA-68 standard: http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modu...ecture/EOMA-68

The computer cards reuse the legacy PCMCIA form factor. For size comparison, I've attached some photos of a random PCMCIA card and my N900. Imagine upgrading your future N900-style device with a new CPU/GPU/memory combo by simply swapping cards such as this.
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The crowdfunding campaign was successful. Yay!

In addition, someone on the mailing list just posted an idea for a future case ("shell"), a "subnotebook/PDA with QWERTY keyboard". There's also a wiki page that describes this idea. Sounds a bit like an N900, doesn't it?

In any case, it will be interesting to follow what comes of this.
 

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