On Sat, 2004-05-08 at 04:55, Christian van den Bosch wrote:
> 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.
Very nice, i must say.
Have you had a look at the Mod 5272 ?
It has USB and instead only 2 UARTs, less timers and less digital I/O, but 2 MB flash (instead of the 512k, that the 5282 has).
They stripped the I2C and A/D inputs also. But if you look at the specs, it looks quite ok for most applications.
/Martin
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