On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Moshe Werner wrote: > >> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 7:29 PM, Len Ovens <len@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Moshe Werner wrote: >> This is not the first time for this idea. There are one or two people >> working on >> it. The idea that seems to be the best is an ethernet connected AI because >> this >> seems to be the digital interface that stays around and is best supported. >> The >> idea is to use an arm based board with a netjack master and built in audio >> IF. The >> only project I know of is to at first provide stereo i/o as a proof of >> concept. >> >> >> Interesting, I didn't know this. Can you send a link to it? > > > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/pipermail/linux-audio-user/2011-October/081520.html > is the start I think... Though it may have surfaced since then too. > > It seems to me that at some point the same project came back in either LAU > or LAD but the topic got changed. I love a good design project, and a modular audio interface would be an amazing one. My vision of a real Open Hardware Audio Interface would take a formiddable team of engineers, each with specific specialties to tackle the problem. High-freq circuits, HDL programming, kernel modules, mixed-signal, audio pre-amps, and power supply design... you'd really need someone who's willing to study each one of them. I met with a good group of people at LAC 2012 who are working on AVB support under linux. At the time, this was the group of people that I was primarily considering "the audience" for organizing such a project. After meeting everybody, I realized we were heading in different directions. I (personally) don't want to work on software or sound card protocols--I can barely follow along with AVB. So--I did not follow up on it. I moved on to other projects. I'd love to work on a HW project, but not without considerable support and teamwork to see it through to the end. There is still some value in an Open Hardware design that goes beyond the consumer cost/benefit relationship of the device itself. Whatever you come up with, in terms of design documents, working hardware, software, etc are all stepping stones for new/existing companies to use. You add competition to the marketplace with Open Hardware, lower the barrier to entry, and open up different design goals. There's a lot of potential for economic effects that will end up making audio interfaces better for consumers in the long run. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
