WHENCE? By day, he designed set-top boxes for TVs. By night, he toiled >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Steve had previously worked under Dr David Bisset, at www.dyson.co.uk’s robotics division. In 1999 Wookey and Aleph1 became involved. Aleph1 is no longer involved, and Wookey now works at ARM (but is still involved). In 2001, Toby Churchill Ltd needed a powerful processor-card to power its next-generation Lightwriters. Nick Bane, senior software engineer at TCL, bought Steve a beer. One thing led to another … today, iEndian and Toby Churchill Ltd share engineers and objectives. But the two companies are separate. WHITHER?The boards have been made available at rock-bottom prices to anybody (hobbyist, university or commercial company).We can customize the boards to your requirements, subject to MOQ and NRE. We are a small group of individuals, fired up by the ‘Open Source’ concept. Please do not expect us to do “big company” things (but we do supply VAT invoices...) Keep it simple, we beseech you; the formula is: =if(you want them,then buy them,else don't) WHY 'BalloonBoard'?The balloon name came from the '1100' part of StrongARM 1100 ('lloo'='1100'), the original processor. When we feel particularly skittish, we call it the 'Loon'. CAN WE SUPPLY IN QUANTITY?Yes, but we’d need a 50% deposit in order to fund the production of a large batch.CAN WE CUSTOMISE THE BOARD TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS?Yes, subject to a minimum of 100. If your customisation is specialised, we need a firm order.It can be tailored to your requirements: the rear side is tracked but normally unpopulated; the fully-populated double-sided build is full-featured, see www.balloonboard.org To special order a single-sided board can have a backplane, and additional connectors fitted as required, including a Compact-Flash socket allowing a variety of plug-in cards to be used. |
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