Millions of maker boards have shipped to date, mostly as an extension of a thriving young DIY community. However, as open networking platforms continue to surface as alternatives for commercial product development, it is possible that a generation of embedded engineers is being brought up by maker. GizmoSphere has also entered the maker market with x86 process technology, including an AMD Embedded computer G-Series APU capable of 52.8 GFLOPS at under 10 W on their Gizmo board. Part of the Gizmo Explorer Kit, the package “was designed to be flexible so that designers can customize the system according to their specific development goals,” says Kerry Brown, Vice President and Chief Operations Officer, Sage Industrial Electronic Engineering.
“Gizmo was created to provide a flexible, multipurpose development board to serve the unique needs of embedded developers,” Brown says. “There is a wide range of interfaces on the Gizmo board, including PCIe, I2C, USB, and GPIO … to enable each developer’s unique design goals. The companion Explorer board provides a sea of holes for industrial prototyping and debugging. The kit can be used by hobbyist developers who want to tinker at home on the weekends, or by entrepreneurs and small businesses developing their next product.”
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http://embedded-computing.com/articles/diy-pushes-open-hardware-kindergarten-kickstarter/
