[TriLUG] Other cheap tiny devices.

[Thomas Gardner]

Actually, this is very close.  Almost perfect.  Too bad this isn't
horseshoes, a hand grenade, or an atom bomb.  :-)  Unfortunately,
it looks like the USB is the wrong end.  Since this has audio out,
and 2G of internal flash (plus SD, which I probably wouldn't need),
I could actually live without the USB for this project if there was
also a microphone input jack, but as far as I could tell, it only
has a speaker jack.  Dang.  So close.

128M of RAM is plenty for what I have in mind.

Thanks for the input, though.  I never would have thought of
an ereader.  Maybe I'll find another that has everything I need.
Although, I suspect the $25 I'm wanting to spend per unit is going to
be the real limiting factor there.  I'd need about a dozen or so of
whatever I come up with, so price is pretty important.  Especially
being unenjoyed and all.  I guess I wouldn't have been able to get
my paws on a dozen referbs of this product, either, which would put
this device a lot closer to the price of a Raspberry anyway.

Thanks for the input, though.  You gave me some ideas of other things
to look at.

Thanks,
tg.

On 7/28/12, David Burton <ncdave4life at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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