Small servers made with 15 Leike American Board
I have made a product but I can't find it, and the reason is not in the product itself, this should be a very depressed thing. And this is what Liu Xinghua encountered around 2012.
At that time, Liu Xixing Hua was with some friends, and he improved its development board. At that time, the students of Harbin Institute of Technology Shenzhen Graduate School, usually do their own hardware projects, and more than the use of the Raspberry. But as the development increases, in terms of performance and peripheral interface, the Raspberry Pie gradually satisfies the need, so they start to improve and develop their own boards. Later, they also set up a similar organizational space organization and evolved into today's Lemei guests.
The earliest Banana Pi is the Banana Pi, the maximum difference between the Raspberry Pist, the performance, hard disk access, and open source, the first two is a comparison method that is more common in the development board, and in the open source, Liu Xinghua said, The Raspberry Pist has not used the word Open Source. There is no open schematic and PCB Layout. It is more like a commercial institution, using open source software and programming language, due to the ease of use of products, thereby promoting open source hardware Rise. In contrast, Lemei will open the schematic, even PCB LAYOUT and BOM, and there are currently many manufacturers in the market.
Liu Xinghua
In addition to Banana Pi, Le Meike launched a three models such as Guitar, Piano, HiKey in June this year. After the product came out, they have encountered a problem that is not the product itself. When Liu Xinghua, it is: "I don't know who to give it."
In 2012 to 2013, domestic smart hardware is still so fire, there is not much to use the development board, even if it is a Raspberry Pist, there are still few people who "blow water", which causes them to do this Who is recommended by the product. Since domestic is not available, then try abroad. They first sent their development boards to some community developers and the media that focused on open source hardware. The result did not expect the feedback effect. It started to accumulate some reputation.
Lemeike will also pay attention to domestic developers. However, compared to foreign country atmosphere, Liu Xinghua believes that "domestic Chuangke culture is still in its infancy, and the atmosphere is still somewhat". "The" economic foundation determined the upper building "is the main reason. In foreign countries, engineers are many of them to be happy, and they are willing to exchange projects; while domestic engineers do not work overtime, and the development project is easy to treat as a commercial product.
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During the interview, Liu Xinghua introduced a anecdote in the promotion process of Lemei customers. In 2014, a researcher of California Institute of Technology Contact them, hoping to provide more than 50 boards for public welfare undertakings. The other party and the public welfare organization include a public welfare project in the South Pacific islands to help the school on the island access to Internet services (the project introduction can be seen here). The local island is too far away, there is no necessary basic equipment, so researchers think of using some cheap open source hardware to build servers, store some necessary educational resources in the hard disk, and regularly physically update, provide education for other equipment in local schools. And web services, this is a bit like the Internet from the Internet. The other party also tried the Robish Party, but the performance of the computing ability and the hard disk interface did not satisfactorily, and finally I chose the banana sent by Lemeike.
After receiving the request, Liu Xinghua and colleagues also felt very unexpectedly. They didn't think that it would be associated with the public welfare organization. Although the cooperation, Le Meike is just a resource provider. The main match is completed by the other party, but this cooperation has broadening Liu Xinghua's understanding of the application scope of development board. In addition to the mainstream passenger, some social institutions also have this demand. Now, they have cooperated with public welfare organizations such as Africa, Europe to provide them with hardware products and technical support. However, as a business company, this "public welfare" behavior is unable to produce profitable, if you have long, the company is inevitable. For example, a public welfare project in Africa needs to form a computer innovation center, it takes hundreds of development boards.
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Confused, there are few public welfare organizations to ask collaborators to provide development boards, generally requiring funds, or materials related to food and clothing. In this phenomenon, Liu Xinghua believes that in addition to the interpretation of domestic cultural and economic conditions, it is also related to the vision of our technique. Domestic consumers generally believe that technology is to serve small parts, and the average person can only play with certain knowledge. However, the rise of open source hardware, its core is to let more people participate. For technology, it is the root cause of the rise of Corporate culture. Multi-component modularity and standardization also makes the Proans' ability to have DIY products. The development board products are more and more cheap, and it is more suitable for the promotion of the Corporate culture to remote areas, and perform computer education. Maybe it is more trendy technology and products, the more you should be able to use the people who don't use it, because they don't have the burden of traditional technology.
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