$99 "plug computer" that runs Ubuntu

[Charles Jones]

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 :)
> --
> JD Austin
> Twin Geckos Technology Services LLC
> jd at twingeckos.com <mailto:jd at twingeckos.com>
> 480.288.8195x201
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>
>
> Groucho Marx  - "I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this 
> wasn't it."
>
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Charles Jones 
> <charles.jones at ciscolearning.org 
> <mailto:charles.jones at 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 :-)
>

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