On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 8:52 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent@otvorenamreza.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 3:14 AM, Marc Juul <juul@labitat.dk> wrote:
>> It's a case-less board with a single 2.4 GHz radio but it really is $5
>> including tax and shipping and you can buy as many as you want.
>>
>> They're estimated to ship in November.
>>
>>
>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onion/omega2-5-iot-computer-with-wi-fi-powered-by-linux
>>
>> I ordered 10 of them for mesh projects.
>>
>> It's a bit sad that they don't have the ethernet broken out since that would
>> make them useful as mesh routers that we could just hand out left and right.
>> We could make ethernet breakout boards for them ourselves if we feel like
>> doing some soldering, but given that you can buy an OpenWRT router for ~$12
>> with two ethernet ports and a case it's not obvious that this is worth it.
>>
>> If we're ok with just one ethernet port then we could buy a bunch of $1.75
>> USB ethernet adapters. Assume $1 for a dollar store plastic case and we then
>> have usable mesh routers for $8 a pop.
>>
>> They're probably more useful as interfaces between e.g. LoRa hardware and
>> sensors and such where you just want it to be small, low power and cheap but
>> still want to run e.g. a full meshing protocol.
>>
>> --
>> marc/juul
>
>
> Hi Marc,
> I was also on same KS page looking at their kits which is $20 if you
> want power board, AFAIK $5 version you can't even power up! :(
>
> A then again you are missing ethernet ports, usb over ethernet is not
> something I'll go for, so when you count all of those shields it is
> quite expensive device...
>
> I was thinking also to get few Omega2 devices but decided that for my
> use case which is that I need a device in a nice small case, ethernet
> port, small dimenstions, usb port, and external antennas it is much
> better to go for some of GLiNet devices... check them out...
> http://www.gl-inet.com/
>
> Which devices are you buying for $15 ?
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.

Also if you are open source enthusiast then keep in mind that they
claim they are open source, but when pressed they admited that most of
their code is actually closed source binaries in form of openwrt
packages :(