27 Oct
2007
27 Oct
'07
1:37 a.m.
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 13:55:18 -0700
"Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
I can get DSL modems with ARM7 MPUs, wireless, USB and
100BaseT as
well as some sort of serial connection, flash and generous DRAM that
are running Linux for next to nothing at the local recycler (or from
Freecycle). There's just no easy way to dig into the thing to add my
own doodads, otherwise I'd have a bucket of the things and toss a lot
of my bigger boxes.
There is the Alix from PC-Engines. It is basicly a PeeCee SBC
around the
AMD LX800 CPU / system on a chip. Cost is 100..150 EUR. The alix1c has
GPIO pins. It is open, it is documented, you can run any PeeCee OS on
it, WinDOS, Linux, ... It seems a reasonable base for all non-trivial
tasks, that can't be handled by a small microcontroler. E.g. if you need
Ethernet, USB2, ... or lots of RAM.
Speaking about small microcontrolers: I am currently hacking an Atmel
AVR. avr-gcc and avr-libc are great stuff.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/