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[ILUG] hardware hackers -- DIMM-sized linux box (fwd)

[ILUG] hardware hackers -- DIMM-sized linux box (fwd)

Christian van den Bosch cjb at linux.ie
Sat May 8 04:55:21 IST 2004


Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> Citat Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org>:
> 
>>A friend passed on a nifty new product; fast, low-power, all-in-one boards
>>80mm x 20mm x 8mm, running Linux 2.6.x with uClibc.  They support MMC cards
>>for the filesystem -- up to 256Mb.
>>
>>    http://www.gumstix.com/
>>
>>The boards start at $109, and the "waysmall" cased version is $139.
>>Looks pretty nifty for small-scale hardware hacking...
> 
> 
> Quite nifty, they are just missing one important thing: a NIC. There is a USB
> port, that might be used for networking instead, but that isn't really a good
> solution, so for the price  i would tend to buy a pcengines wrap.

For a similar price range (I think - haven't priced them personally,
just played with them at work) there's the Netburner mod5282, based
on a 66MHz Motorola Coldfire, runs ucLinux and such. They have a NIC
and lots of I/O, but no USB.

cjb

http://ocean.ucc.ie/~cjvdb1/




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