Qi Hardware's Ben NanoNote: open to the bone device
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00:07
This is Samlas Martinez on the Ben Narnothi. And I will just quickly set the timer. And then it's all up to you. Hello.
00:21
I want to introduce the CHI hardware project and this device we developed, this Ben Narnoth. This, we will talk about the CHI hardware project. CHI hardware is a community of entities formed by individuals, companies, universities,
00:42
and everyone that wants to join us. It's committed in, I believe it's like we can do hardware in different ways than this is done usually. And based on three principles, our copyright hardware, upstream kernels, and community-driven at all levels.
01:04
Yes. So we will point to each point. Our copyright hardware, we mean that the hardware, all information needed to build that hardware is totally free.
01:20
You can take that information and build the device by yourself so you have the resources. So we don't consider we will success in this project until one entity produces, modify and produce the hardware by themselves.
01:42
On the wiki, you can find the production notes, testing, the schematics, and all the information necessary to do that. So we are partners on that, and we are starting. So there are a lot of work to do.
02:02
But we are committed in that point. The next point is to use upstream kernels. Use the last version of the kernels
02:21
and be focused in trying to be mainstream. We try to select our cheap vendors mainly by this quality on Linux support, not by features. We prefer to be able to know the code more than features
02:46
itself. So I know that upstreaming is a hard work to do, but it's a good point to make the project maintainable
03:00
and in the long run. So the other key point is that it's community driven. This is not a company with a group of people that we believe in the project. And basically because we believe in only one company,
03:22
all the knowledge can afford all the knowledge to do that. And we believe in the open open resource way of those things. So we translate that philosophy on hardware producing. So we have a core team that focuses in building the hardware
03:46
and produce it. But we rely on community, on working in other parts of the project, like software or in hardware
04:03
too. We allow to modify the schematics and so on using open tools like KiKAT and so on. So you can enter in any part of the process. But the most work is done in the higher parts, the more work
04:24
and the core team to take it to the lower parts. Companies involved in that project usually help the developers and support us in any way possible
04:41
they can. And this is the first device reaching the real world from that initiative. It's called the Ben NanoNode. Ben signifies beginning. Obviously, it's our first device. We don't stop in that device. We are planning on future ones and other branches
05:05
of devices. But someone has to start in one point, and we started on this. And here are the characteristics of the Ben NanoNode. It's a MIPS CPU with a three-core TPT
05:26
and a resolution of that one. It has a 200 megabytes of memory, headphone jack. He has a speaker, a microphone. The battery allows to work within about 10 hours.
05:43
It can be extended by a CDO. We are working in some pre-passes on that CD. All the code, of course, is GPL.
06:01
But more important is that all information about the building the device is under Creative Commons. There are some examples of the server that are running on it. We are working on a start gig, a scenario.
06:22
And there are their own links, because you can navigate through a Inaski code. And there are posts of some games, like Quake and Doom. And this is a picture of the Juke Nukem 3D.
06:45
Also, as they said, the SDL delivery is ported. There are some applications, but they don't deliver it. They deliver it from buffer, like a clock setting. And also, it has a music player to play oak songs.
07:07
So it's basically all that you can fit in that hardware. But we are working to spread more and more applications on it, and the free nature of the hardware is easy to port.
07:26
And it's easy to make software in there. Actually, we are running an open W3T distribution that has a lot of packets ready to go.
07:44
The repository is using this OPCA-G. It's similar to AppGet, to the AppT repositories, more simple to fit the device. We are using an up-to-date kernel, .6.3.4,
08:05
and a resin U-boat to start the device. As I've told, we are working on another, on peripherals on the device, but it's on SD. They are one vendor that produce a SD Wi-Fi driver.
08:23
Actually, it's in alpha stages. It works. I have made a blog post directly from Nanonode. But sometimes, they have to work on it a little bit. And the open nature of the device,
08:42
they are porting another distribution, like Jettalime, that was a distribution working on HP Jornada 680 with the half of the resources of that device, lower CPU, and the half of the memory.
09:02
But they succeed to run an X distribution with PDF readers and so on. So the creator, Christophe, creator of Jettalime is working on a port to that device. And Iris, that is a distribution based on microkernel
09:23
from a Debian developer that will do a talk in a divided room about this and have access to report a distribution based on that activity.
09:41
So you can know more about the project on the wiki. And we are connected with some open and free hardware initiatives that are connected on our planet, our IDS feeder. So you can join us on the mining list and ask about anything you like.
10:05
You can learn. You can share your and our ideas on software development, hardware tweaks, full designs. Use cases, marketing ideas, production improvements, whatever you think that may fit on that device
10:23
on future devices. Or we have to tell you that we are focusing now in the release of that one. But we have the gates open to any initiative that you have in mind or improvements in that hardware to implement in future versions and so on.
10:44
You can reach us at keyhardware.com. So any questions?