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Current consumption: 0.13A - same module, wifi off 0.17A - same module, wifi enabled 0.14A - dock (RJ45 included) + wifi off 0.20A - dock (RJ45 included) + wifi enabled

according to one of WRTnode from http://openrouter.info/forum/viewtopic.php?p=36058

and WRTnode is about 20g in weight.


Sorry for the bad webpage design, we will change it but may take a while, actually there's no web front-end person in our small team, all the site was done by our-self while coding Linux or pcb lay-out.


Thanks for pointing out, we corrected it. :)


If I can share a suggestion: the phrase "Born to be proud" comes off as a bit arrogant and doesn't sound natural to a native English speaker. If you're proud of the product, or you're trying to convey the idea that it was created with good intentions, some different wording might get your point across better. Something like "a better open platform" or "born to be open" [even though that also doesn't sound natural either, unless you know what 'open hardware' is].

Here i've cleaned up some of the copy from your sales page:

"WRTnode is a high performance, low power, small, inexpensive development board intended to run OpenWRT OS. It also easily ports open source software based on Linux.

Today, more and more devices are connecting to The Internet of Things. The WRTnode is a small node which can connect to the internet all by itself and perform complex tasks, like detecting a cat running by, or identifying your speech and twittering it, or checking your email and speaking it to you, or learning how your room is laid out and finding garbage to sweep while streaming video to you over the internet. [..] Open Source hardware for OpenWrt [..] [remove the line "smart machines' heart"] complete set of high performance I/O [..] Local dns uses i.wrtno.de, wrtnode.lan, and openwrt.lan [..] default WRTnode ip 192.168.8.1 [..] WRTnode additional features (source at github.com/WRTnode):"


Made with pride is the most literal translation. I think the intent though is Born to be free however there is no good translation of that given the many meanings of free that even native speakers cannot understand ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libre )


  ..."Born to be proud" [...] doesn't sound natural to a native English speaker...
Have to agree. It's not idiomatic English, so it really fails when given such prominence on the site.

It also has echoes of classic 1970s rock, which doesn't help (born to be wild, born to run).


It looks good now. Next time I will try your support link instead, but I am glad you saw the comment and got it cleaned up.

In the future it shouldn't be too hard to find someone willing to support and a good open source project with some proof-reading. I may not be the best candidate, but it would be a good way for someone to get started helping the project, and could make a big difference if you are targeting a larger audience.


Thank you very much, It's very kind of you all if there's anyone like chrisBob mentioned who willing to help us with our poor English, pls mail me: noel@wrtnode.com, we could pay for it. :)


Hello people, I am Noel from WRTnode.com. Very glad that you notice us. Actually, we have opened public Beta version sale in China for RMB$148(as US$24), and closed today as two month later. We have donated 20 boards for the BattleMesh V7 http://battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV7#Donated_OpenHardware_-_WR.... And the Schematic is: http://cn.wrtnode.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WRTnode_sch..., and we will give all the BOMlist and PCBlayout soon. Maybe it will be sold publicly at the ends of July. All OpenWrt firmware source comes from dev.openwrt.org. The board is officially supported by OpenWrt.org as one of the three devices on MT7620n. the only thing bothered is that the Wi-Fi driver of MT7620n is close-sourced by the MTK, so we have to provide the .ko binary driver in https://github.com/WRTnode/openwrt-packages/tree/master/rali... , We are trying to communicating with MTK to open the driver's source.


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