I bought the dev kit from here: http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp , specifically from: http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-kit.aspx .

The dev version is $99 but is supposed to drop down to $49 as/when any companies start mass selling them.  One company already sells a modified version for $79: http://www.pogoplug.com/

-Charles

JD Austin wrote:
I didn't see where I could actually buy one.. would make a nice micro asterisk server :)
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On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Charles Jones <charles.jones@ciscolearning.org> wrote:
Eric Shubert wrote:
Charles Jones wrote:
  
I just bought one of these to experiment with: 
http://www.marvell.com/products/embedded_processors/developer/kirkwood/sheevaplug.jsp

It is basically a tiny linux box with 1.2Ghz processor, with a gigabit 
ethernet and USB 2.0 port ( 
http://nozama.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed05fc288330112790d732928a4-800wi ). 
Installing packages and software is as easy as normal apt-get procedure, 
no custom-compiling needed. You are limited by what little free space is 
left on the filesystem, but you can augment that via USB storage.

My first tests with this device will be attaching an HD USB camera and 
using mjpeg-streamer to turn it into a cheap network camera.  I'd also 
like to see if I can attach a small USB hub and run both the camera as 
well as a USB ethernet adapter, thus creating a cheap wireless network 
camera/device.

If anyone is interested I will post more info when I receive it, and 
report on how my testing goes.

-Charles
    
Wow. Attach a couple USB drives configured as raid-1, and you've got a 
nice little backup server!
  
Imagine having a big power strip with like 6 of these running as servers. They only draw 5w each. So imagine how long a typical rackmount UPS could power those plus your switch :-)