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!
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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