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20 Nov 08

A Story About ‘Magic'

23 Jul 08

CherryPal out sweetens Apple with 2W, ultra-cheap PC | The Register

  • Here’s how you to get to CherryPal. Gather up all of the hot technology buzzwords – cloud computing, going green, communities – and mush them together into something about the size of sandwich.



    CherryPal has unveiled a device that’s billed as a cloud computer. Don’t be intimidated by the name. We’re just talking about a PC that runs on an ultra low-power chip from Freescale instead of one of those hot jobbies from Intel or AMD. That energy-friendly chip helps CherryPal keep its computer small and cheap – an ideal combination, we’re told, for attracting youngsters to something different.




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    Fine details on CherryPal’s approach remain tough to gather because the company doesn’t plan to reveal the full breadth of its assault on the PC market until the third quarter. For now, it’s only showing off the hardware.



    The CherryPal folks stripped out 80 per cent of the usual PC innards, leaving a case, a chip, a couple USB ports and a monitor port. The system runs on a Power architecture-based 400MHz Freescale mobileGT MPC5121e chip, ships with 4GB of Flash storage and has 256MB of memory. The operating system of choice is a tweaked version of embedded Linux (Debian).



    Best of all, perhaps, the unit chews through a mere 2 watts. (Not a typo.)

05 Jun 08

WebHome < Main < Reprap

  • RepRap is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is the practical self-copying 3D printer shown on the right - a self-replicating machine.
    This 3D printer builds the component up in layers of plastic. This technology
    already exists, but the cheapest commercial machine would cost you about €30,000. And it isn't even designed so that it can make itself. So what
    the RepRap team are doing is to develop and to give away the designs
    for a much cheaper machine with the novel capability of being able to
    self-copy (material costs are about €400). That way it's
    accessible to small communities in the developing world as well as
    individuals in the developed world. Following the principles of the Free Software Movement we are distributing the RepRap
    machine at no cost to everyone under the GNU General Public Licence. So, if you have
    a RepRap machine, you can make another and give it to a friend...
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