[TriLUG] Other cheap tiny devices.

David Burton ncdave4life at gmail.com
Sat Jul 28 10:29:27 EDT 2012


Well, I recently picked up a refurbished Pandigital Novell Personal 6"
ePaper eReader for $25.  It apparently runs some variant of Linux.  It's an
example of the "4FFF N168 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4FFF_N618>" eReader
(more info here <http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/4fff_n618> and
here<http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=107893>).
 It has only 128 MB of RAM, so it'd be pretty limited as a general purpose
Linux machine.

Dave



On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 5:47 PM, John Mitchell <john280z at gmail.com> wrote:

> More popular (board/CPU) = more/better Instructions.
> Board introduced this week = very few instructions or easy to install
> distro.
>
>    Right now I'd say go with the Raspberries. 4 or 5 Linux distros ready to
> load in to a SD card and
> many web sites with instructions. 1, 2, 3 and you're booting Linux.
>    Otherwise you may get bogged down in compiling the tools to build the
> Linux
> distro to then install it then to find out it needs 4 patches
> to actually run everything on the board.
>    (this assumes you want to do stuff in Linux - if you want to program an
> ARM CPU it's hard to beat the
> STDiscovery for $14.87
> http://www.mouser.com/knowledge/stmicroelectronics/stm32f4discovery/   )
>
> john mitchell
> (I'm playing with a TI CortexM3 at the moment)
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