How do,
Feb. 28, 2006
Acme Systems is shipping a Penguin-shaped case for a tiny SBC (single-board computer) powered by an innovative MCM (multi-chip module) that runs Linux. The 6.7-inch tall, 30-Euro "Tux Case" houses the company's "Acme Fox," a 2.6 x 2.8-inch, 100-Euro, RISC-based board with Ethernet and dual-USB interfaces, and surface-mount connectors for other I/O.
Full article at; http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3880195342.html
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:28 -0500, taharka wrote:
How do,
Feb. 28, 2006
Acme Systems is shipping a Penguin-shaped case for a tiny SBC (single-board computer) powered by an innovative MCM (multi-chip module) that runs Linux. The 6.7-inch tall, 30-Euro "Tux Case" houses the company's "Acme Fox," a 2.6 x 2.8-inch, 100-Euro, RISC-based board with Ethernet and dual-USB interfaces, and surface-mount connectors for other I/O.
Full article at; http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3880195342.html
Kinda cool! If I can find something to do with it and I'm buying one. If at least it had 2 ethernet port it could be used as a router...
On 3/1/06, Jean-Rene Cormier jrc@jrcormier.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:28 -0500, taharka wrote:
How do,
Feb. 28, 2006
Acme Systems is shipping a Penguin-shaped case for a tiny SBC (single-board computer) powered by an innovative MCM (multi-chip module) that runs Linux. The 6.7-inch tall, 30-Euro "Tux Case" houses the company's "Acme Fox," a 2.6 x 2.8-inch, 100-Euro, RISC-based board with Ethernet and dual-USB interfaces, and surface-mount connectors for other I/O.
Full article at; http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3880195342.html
Kinda cool! If I can find something to do with it and I'm buying one. If at least it had 2 ethernet port it could be used as a router...
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It looks like a good system for a router if it had two network ports, but where is the monitor port if it is to be used as a basic computer?
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On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 19:13 -0500, Terry Snyder wrote:
On 3/1/06, Jean-Rene Cormier jrc@jrcormier.com wrote:
On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 09:28 -0500, taharka wrote:
How do,
Feb. 28, 2006
Acme Systems is shipping a Penguin-shaped case for a tiny SBC (single-board computer) powered by an innovative MCM (multi-chip module) that runs Linux. The 6.7-inch tall, 30-Euro "Tux Case" houses the company's "Acme Fox," a 2.6 x 2.8-inch, 100-Euro, RISC-based board with Ethernet and dual-USB interfaces, and surface-mount connectors for other I/O.
Full article at; http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS3880195342.html
Kinda cool! If I can find something to do with it and I'm buying one. If at least it had 2 ethernet port it could be used as a router...
...snip...> It looks like a good system for a router if it had two network ports, but where is the monitor port if it is to be used as a basic computer?
After checking it out, it looks like a cool little unit. One of there device servers has two Ethernet ports, the second port is actually a USB Ethernet adaptor on the board, which would be OK as a WAN port since most DSL and Cable modems only support up to 10 Mbps.
I have been doing some hobby robotics, and have been finding that working with most micro-controllers takes a lot of time and effort. Since these run Linux and can be programmed using C, they are a much niftier solution for me. With these babies I could just use the micro-controllers for I/O data collection and device control, and leave the processing and storage to the MCM. Since the have Ethernet, I could network them for more advanced projects.
Thanks for the info, I'll have to hunt one of these babies down. Hmm... in the next episode; Armies of robo-tux drones lay Redmond asunder, as Bill Gates quivers under his desk.
Thinkin' happy thoughts as I go.