[TriLUG] Other cheap tiny devices.

[Roadrunner]

I think I have a pandigital sitting on a shelf. Iirc it runs something close to android 1.6 
Too slow, too often loses wifi, and too short a battery life, but interesting as a curiosity. 
It works to play pandora or show pics as a frame if kept plugged in, and of course it can be hacked through the debugger. 

Sent from my iPad

On Jul 28, 2012, at 10:29 AM, 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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