[sdiy] How much is a Chameleon ?

[Paul Maddox]

NP,
 
> It's dead... unfortunately.. But time moved on.

IMHO, a platform is only dead when no-one is using it or developing for it.

> Have you taken a look at this one? http://www.openpandora.org/
> 
> It's not a rack-unit as the Chameleon. It looks just like a toy (well -
> it is) but It's incredibly capable. The built-in DSP is the gem. (e.g.
> the ARM and the Video-Core are nice for user-interface things).  I work
> on the same DSP  two years now, and you can do incredible things with
> them. I always have much more processing power than I need or the
> memory-bandwidth can sustain.

It's a nice concept, but lacks some of the features I feel are important,
hence why I've started the QiX project.

> That thing will be much cheaper than the chameleon as well.

The target price for a complete 'QiX' (5253 MCU and 56720 DSP) is $600,
which will get you a lot more 'bang for buck' than the pandora.

> I don't know about the quality of the Audio In/Out, but one high-speed
> codec is built-in.

QiX will have 8 ins and 8 outs, in addition to USB OTG, Ethernet, MIDI and a
bunch of other stuff.

I'm not putting down the pandora, I looked and considered it for a while,
but it just doesn't have some of what I'd like.

Paul