Beaglebone!
Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:46 pm
Thought people might be interested in this little puppy: http://beagleboard.org/bone
For people too lazy to click the link, it is a small board powered by a ARM Cortex A8 (720MHz peak) and 256MB RAM. It comes with Angstrom Linux preloaded on a microSD card.
The distro also comes preloaded with perl, python, gcc etc and even Cloud9 javascript IDE. All you need to do is connect to your computer using a single USB cable, and install some drivers and voila, you are connected to its console.
Alternately, you can get a cheap 5V power supply, connect it via ethernet to your router, and you can ssh into it (ssh is enabled by default, no configuration necessary). This is what I have done.
For the hardware hacker types, it also comes with a lot of connectors with some daughter boards and accessories in development.
For others (like me), it is an easy and fun way to play with an ARM board.
It does have a free USB port, not sure if you can say connect a hard drive to it.
For people too lazy to click the link, it is a small board powered by a ARM Cortex A8 (720MHz peak) and 256MB RAM. It comes with Angstrom Linux preloaded on a microSD card.
The distro also comes preloaded with perl, python, gcc etc and even Cloud9 javascript IDE. All you need to do is connect to your computer using a single USB cable, and install some drivers and voila, you are connected to its console.
Alternately, you can get a cheap 5V power supply, connect it via ethernet to your router, and you can ssh into it (ssh is enabled by default, no configuration necessary). This is what I have done.
For the hardware hacker types, it also comes with a lot of connectors with some daughter boards and accessories in development.
For others (like me), it is an easy and fun way to play with an ARM board.
It does have a free USB port, not sure if you can say connect a hard drive to it.