[seeteeyou]

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is now offering customers the option to order customized hardware. The only catch? You’ll need to place a pretty large order: LinuxGizmos reports minimum orders will start at around 3,000 to 5,000 units, depending on the type of customization you need.
 
In other words, the new custom Raspberry Pi option isn’t really aimed at hobbyists. But it could allow small businesses to use a Raspberry Pi as the basis for consumer electronics, industrial, or Internet of Things hardware by modifying the layout of the board, change the interfaces, headers, and connectors, or add features to the printed circuit board.
 
Raspberry Pi will work with manufacturing partner Element14 to build and distribute the new custom Raspberry Pi computers.

 

 

 
http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-76955
http://linuxgizmos.com/official-customized-raspberry-pi-versions-coming-soon/
http://liliputing.com/2015/10/you-can-design-a-custom-raspberry-pi-if-you-order-3000-or-more.html
http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/10/28/element14-and-raspberry-pi-trading-launch-a-raspberry-pi-customization-service/
 

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Since Chord will only offer accessories for Mojo without a screen, it's still an opportunity for manufacturing a pure digital transport with massive (e.g. 1TB mSATA SSD) storage. Right now we're only paying just under 350 bucks for each Samsung MZ-M5E1T0BW
 
http://www.samsung.com/us/support/owners/product/MZ-M5E1T0BW
http://www.google.com/shopping/product/6656786132424101825
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147412
 
So far the cheapest 512GB SDXC cards still cost over $250
 
http://www.google.com/shopping/product/567369344435602592
http://www.google.com/shopping/product/14802695579994346940
 
256GB would cost roughly $90
 
http://www.amazon.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-Speed-P-SDX256U395-GE/dp/B00WWBCS1Y
http://camelcamelcamel.com/PNY-Elite-Performance-Speed-P-SDX256U395-GE/product/B00WWBCS1Y
 
Honestly it's still a pain to work with multiple SDXC cards, therefore a single piece of 1TB mSATA should fit the bill with much better speed. SoC with mSATA support could be found already as shown below
 
http://linuxgizmos.com/android-mini-pc-taps-quad-core-rockchip-cools-itself/
http://linuxgizmos.com/open-linux-hummingboard-sbc-goes-on-sale-starting-at-45/
 

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What are we waiting for? Mojo is flying off the shelves right now and it's about time to get your share of the Pi (pun intended) before it's too late.

 

[sonickarma]

Sounds interesting but I suspect Chord themselves will release a good transport add-on before any crowd project comes to light