Free Parallella Porcupine breakout boards!!

[aolofsson]

Porcupine boards now available for purchase!

Intro:
http://www.parallella.org/2014/12/15/me ... out-board/

Buy:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/e ... ND/5048176

[jharp]

Thanks so much. Great news.

Ordered one as soon as I read the post, and it arrived yesterday.

Now I know what I'll be doing this weekend!

Jeff

[udif]

Is it possible to use the porcupine board to link two parallella boards via the eLinks?
I understand the eLinks are also connected to a 0.1" grid pins.
Can a typical IDC cable (lets say a very short one, a few CM long) good enough to carry these signals?
How about 80 wire IDC cables used for 133MHz IDE where every other wire is a shield/ground?
http://ptgmedia.pearsoncmg.com/images/c ... 05_alt.jpg
What if I cut the cable and leave only the two close connectors?

Wait - will a 1:1 connector even work, or do I need to cross Tx/Rx pairs?

[FHuettig]

[udif]

Great! But now they are out of stock
When can we expect them to be available again?
Can we trust the Digikey date (~8 weeks from now)?

[djhuft]

I'm interested too. I'd really like to put one of these to use in a robotics project.
Just having a PCB like that for throwing some prototypes together would be extremely handy.

I see that the end of March is Digikey's backorder estimate. If that's right, I'll wait for it. Otherwise, I might spin my own.

[kriegalex]

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[Amiejay]

Hi all...

Are these boards ever to be produced commercially again?

My AI project is coming along amazingly well, and I'm approaching the point where some form of distributed processing might be useful. I'd love to directly interface two 7020 boards using Porcupines. Directly interfacing four 7010 boards might be an option as well, assuming I can find four Porcupine boards.

Failing that, I might need to explore some kind of Ethernet-based distribution.

I have two of the Zebax-produced breakout boards, but I'm concerned about the amount of noise in that type of connection.

If the Porcupines will be produced commercially again, any idea when?

Thanks...

[aolofsson]

1 batch of 1,000 now being built up. PCBs just arrived, assembly starting this week.