Olimex Offers Up to 50% Discount on OLinuXino Boards to Open Source Developers

Olimex has been providing low cost MCU devkits for many years, and this year they started offering more powerful embedded Linux development boards called OLinuXino. The first family (iMX233-OLinuXino) is based on Freescale i.MX233 ARM9 processor @ 454 Mhz and comes in three form factor:

  • iMX233-OLINUXINO-MAXI – 2x USB host, Ethernet, TV-out, GPIOs, SD-CARD, Audio-In, Audio-Out, UEXT – 44.95 Euros.
  • iMX233-OLINUXINO-MINI – 3x USB host, TV-out, GPIOs, SD-CARD, Audio-In, Audio-Out, UEXT – 34.95 Euros
  • iMX233-OLINUXINO-MICRO – USB host, TV-out, GPIOs, SD-CARD, ready for breadboaring – 23.95 Euros
Freescale i.MX233 Development Board
Olimex iMX233-OLinuXino SBC

They are also working on A13-OLinuXino board featuring AllWinner A13 Cortex A8 processor.

To promote their new boards (and reward open source developers – cf comment below), the company company has decided to offer discount to open source developers. The way I understand it: you need to buy a board first, publish the source code somewhere and write about it on your own blog or via Olimex blog, and request the discount (refund in the form of coupon) by email.

There are three levels of discount depending on the project complexity:

  • 15% – Simple projects such as reading out an sensor.
  • 30% – Complex projects such as porting packages, or writing detailed tutorial article for accessing different UEXT peripheral modules.
  • 50% – More complex projects such as porting OS and writing drivers

The fact that you only get a discount code for your next purchase on Olimex site makes it only slightly attractive, and it’s common practice to give away boards to people that are going to go as far as porting a new OS to the board. But if you had already planned to buy and work on the board anyway, it’s a good opportunity to get a discount on your next board.

If you are interested in this offer, check out the corresponding post on Olimex Blog.

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Tsvetan
Tsvetan
12 years ago

we already have sent about 20+ OLinuXinos to developers who work on Uboot, Linux Kernel, etc. to push iMX233 support in mainline or work on making different OS/distributions on iMX233-OLinuXino

this initiative is more intended to reward the developers who will develop some interesting tutorials or projects with OLinuXino

Vikas
12 years ago

That is a nice initiative.

max steve
max steve
12 years ago

can / should I link this deal on slickdeal dot com, It might get more eyeballs and some young kid might take on challenge. Is there any buynow listing page or there is a mail id to get this.

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