Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: [Alsa-devel] Firewire Audio Card Support
From: Lee Revell (rlrevell_AT_joe-job.com)
Date: Fri Nov 19 2004 - 23:19:06 EET
On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 21:03 +0000, Simon Jenkins wrote:
> Jussi Laako wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 15:16 -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>And I posted a [possibly OT] rant to that thread about how this was a
> >>waste of time and how you could REALLY make a killing with open sound
> >>hardware.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I've been doing hardware design and device driver development as part of
> >my day work. Designing open source hardware is possible in theory, but I
> >can't see who would pay the expenses of the development.
> >
>
> The expense could be spread around the participants, but yes, some
> sponsorship
> would be nice too.
>
Agreed, starting from scratch would be tough, unlike a software
company... But a few thousand Euros is a drop in the bucket to a company
with an existing revenue stream and some expertise in the area. That
was why I posted that rant to LKML, in hopes that some hardware people
were reading and would do the math.
(All this talk of Euros, sometimes I feel like the only American LAD...)
> > Software and
> >hardware required to develop a proper hardware costs thousands of euros.
> >
>
> So some of the work would have to be done by people who can access such
> software/hardware at work.
This book is few years old but it makes the hardware DSP development
side look pretty easy:
http://www.dspguide.com/ch29.htm
Does anyone know if this kit can still be had for $179?
Lee
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