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

[Martin List-Petersen]

Citat Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org>:

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> Martin List-Petersen writes:
> > Citat Justin Mason <jm at jmason.org>:
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> > > 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
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> > > for the filesystem -- up to 256Mb.
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> > >     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.
> 
> Yeah, apparently the USB networking works fine (and is pretty much the
> std way to develop with the board at least).
> 
> Got a URL for the pcengines thingy?
 
http://www.pcengines.ch/wrap.htm

It's a board mainly designed as platform for router or wlan ap, but quite useful
 for other stuff, too.

It's a bit bigger, though. 1 to 3 lan connection, 1 or 2 minipci, serial,
compactflash, 233 or 266 mhz Geode CPU, 64 MB ram.

/Martin
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