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Jun 28 19:16:55 <prpplague> wookey_: re
Jun 28 19:17:17 <prpplague> wookey_: hows biz over at aleph1?
Jun 28 19:26:10 * prpplague looks over at his lart board and holly-gates jtag dongle on the shelf
Jun 28 19:56:40 <wookey_> prpplague: not bad (but I'm not there anymore)
Jun 28 19:56:52 <wookey_> I moved after 13yrs in Feb
Jun 28 19:57:12 <wookey_> now doing open hardware full-time at balloonz/toby-churchill ltd
Jun 28 20:03:40 <prpplague> wookey_: ahh cool
Jun 28 20:04:20 <prpplague> wookey_: what kind of hardware? i know the balloonz was sa-11xx based
Jun 28 20:16:21 <wookey_> balloon3 http://balloonboard.org/ (pxa270)
Jun 28 20:16:59 <prpplague> oh wow, lovely board
Jun 28 20:18:16 <prpplague> wookey_: what kind of price range on those?
Jun 28 20:19:33 <wookey_> still to be finalised but GBP 150 for CPLD low-spec and 250 for FPGA high-spec. 500-odd for dev kit with display, IO board, box, etc
Jun 28 20:20:15 <wookey_> were sugested last week when I asked for debconf
Jun 28 20:20:38 <prpplague> ahh
Jun 28 20:20:46 <prpplague> pretty cool board
Jun 28 20:20:50 <wookey_> there will be ~70 going from cambridge university for people who will do 'cool stuff'
Jun 28 20:21:03 <wookey_> they can;t sel them so they'll be freebies
Jun 28 20:21:09 <prpplague> yea, we are doing the same with our boards as well
Jun 28 20:21:23 <wookey_> erm 'real soon' (i.e when I get the software all fettled)
Jun 28 20:31:35 <AchiestDragon> how many of the fpga lines are avalable to the user on the connectors 
Jun 28 20:38:21 <AchiestDragon> wookey_:  ?
Jun 28 20:51:10 <wookey_> AchiestDragon: let me check
Jun 28 20:51:51 <AchiestDragon> i also asked in #balloon on there ircnet 
Jun 28 20:52:00 <AchiestDragon> but no answer there yet 
Jun 28 20:52:32 <wookey_> so you did :-) I'll answer there as it is more appropriate
Jun 28 20:52:51 <AchiestDragon> :) k
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