I've been saying it for at least a month now, but there will be no mass-produced standalone BM1384 pod. If I had one in December, maybe January it could have worked. But I didn't. So I won't.

Compacs are selling out because people want them. They're sold out and no longer available from me because I'm tired of building them. I don't know if anyone could estimate how much manual work goes into assembling one of them, but when you make them with pulled chips the amount of manual work gets tripled. Now consider how much work would go into it if it had 8 pulled chips. Now consider how much of the price would actually be profit, from which I might actually get paid a bit for that work. See why it's not worth it?

Novak chose an LPC11u23 ARM, which is USB-capable and has a variety of ports and ADCs. It's in the same family as the ARM on the Avalon Nano and Ava6 control board (which I believe is LPC11u14? Going from memory on all these part numbers). I've worked with 8051 programmed from Windows, but not ARM programmed from Linux. He had a Linux toolchain set up, and before he left I believe he shifted it over to one of the general shop machines rather than his own box. I figure on utilizing the USB bootloader supported by the chip, so I can write code to it without requiring extra hardware - that also makes firmware updates in the future more possible.

So, I reckon if someone is pretty good with ARM, and maybe also c for some cgminer drivers, and has time to work on it in the next couple weeks, let me know.