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April 3rd, 2014, 10:48
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Today [Bunnie] is announcing the launch of the Novena Open Laptop (http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3657). When we first heard he was developing an open source laptop as a hobby project, we hoped we’d see the day where we could have our own (http://hackaday.com/2012/12/16/bunnie-builds-a-laptop-for-himself-hopefully-us/). Starting today, you can help crowdfund the project by pre-ordering a Novena.
The Novena is based on the i.MX6Q ARM processor (http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX6Q) from Freescale, coupled to a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA (http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/spartan-6/). Combined with the open nature of the project, this creates a lot of possibilities for using the laptop as a hacking tool. It has dual ethernet, for routing or sniffing purposes. USB OTG support lets the laptop act as a USB device, for USB fuzzing and spoofing. There’s even a high speed expansion bus to interface with whatever peripheral you’d like to design.
You can pre-order the Novena in four models. The $500 “just the board” release has no case, but includes all the hardware needed to get up and running. The $1,195 ”All-in-One Desktop” model adds a case and screen, and hinges open to reveal the board for easy hacking. Next up is the $1,995 “Laptop” which includes a battery control board and a battery pack. Finally, there’s the $5000 “Heirloom Laptop” featuring a wood and aluminum case and a Thinkpad keyboard.
The hardware design files are already available, so you can drool over them (http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_PVT_Design_Source). It will be interesting to see what people start doing with this powerful, open computer once it ships. After the break, check out the launch video.
http://hackaday.com/2014/04/02/bunnie-launches-the-novena-open-laptop/
Today [Bunnie] is announcing the launch of the Novena Open Laptop (http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3657). When we first heard he was developing an open source laptop as a hobby project, we hoped we’d see the day where we could have our own (http://hackaday.com/2012/12/16/bunnie-builds-a-laptop-for-himself-hopefully-us/). Starting today, you can help crowdfund the project by pre-ordering a Novena.
The Novena is based on the i.MX6Q ARM processor (http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/prod_summary.jsp?code=i.MX6Q) from Freescale, coupled to a Xilinx Spartan 6 FPGA (http://www.xilinx.com/products/silicon-devices/fpga/spartan-6/). Combined with the open nature of the project, this creates a lot of possibilities for using the laptop as a hacking tool. It has dual ethernet, for routing or sniffing purposes. USB OTG support lets the laptop act as a USB device, for USB fuzzing and spoofing. There’s even a high speed expansion bus to interface with whatever peripheral you’d like to design.
You can pre-order the Novena in four models. The $500 “just the board” release has no case, but includes all the hardware needed to get up and running. The $1,195 ”All-in-One Desktop” model adds a case and screen, and hinges open to reveal the board for easy hacking. Next up is the $1,995 “Laptop” which includes a battery control board and a battery pack. Finally, there’s the $5000 “Heirloom Laptop” featuring a wood and aluminum case and a Thinkpad keyboard.
The hardware design files are already available, so you can drool over them (http://www.kosagi.com/w/index.php?title=Novena_PVT_Design_Source). It will be interesting to see what people start doing with this powerful, open computer once it ships. After the break, check out the launch video.
http://hackaday.com/2014/04/02/bunnie-launches-the-novena-open-laptop/