New Xorro Development Board?

[Rob]

Has anyone done anything interesting with one of these yet , and do the newer boards also have this chip?

Lyle Hazelwood seems to be the only one working on Xena/Xorro.  The XMOS chip and dedicated slot is also on the X5000 but not the A1222.

[Rob]

I guess A-eon will announce it if it's a new board or not. To me it seems to have been put in the pipeline for the AmigaOne X5000 release. Would make sense but who knows hey.

There's no new board.  The semi populated one is the same board that Varisys used in this video from 2012.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5LLqe62_J8

All boards are full length, the smaller board in the photo was simply shortened with a hacksaw to demonstrate that you can cut it to size if need be.

[Rob]

Thanks for your feedback. I wonder why these boards haven't been popular.

1.  You need an X1000 which was only produced in limited numbers.

2.  You need an understanding of programming to be able to get the XMOS chip to do something.

3.  You need a good understanding of electronics so you can build something the XMOS chip can make use of, and without causing damage by overloading the circuits.

4.  You need to have an idea for something that could be useful to you and that the XMOS and Xorro slot are ideally suited to.

5.  You need to have time to actually work on a project.