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"This is what really caught my attention about the Raspberry Pi. I just wish I knew how to get a case of them." Check out BeagleBone - more expensive than Rasb
by andyl 14y ago
"This is what really caught my attention about the Raspberry Pi. I just wish I knew how to get a case of them."
Check out BeagleBone - more expensive than RasberryPi, but they are available. I'm running a BeagleBone as a DNSMASQ server. Linux with package management and full-blown development tools running inside an Altoids tin - yeah! All of these small/cheap/silent linux boards are pretty incredible & there is more to come.
- noonespecial 14y agoThe Bone is currently among my favorites, if not the favorite. I second your recommendation. I liked the Globalscale Sheeva/Guru/Dream for a while but their terrible build quality and ever changing spec put me off them quickly. When I need graphics (mostly we drive plasma displays for signage) I usually use a Lanner. (http://www.lannerinc.com/Embedded_Computing http://www.lannerinc.com/Embedded_Computing) Fanless, cooled through aluminum case, generally indestructible and less than $300 each in bulk. If you just want to throw a switch via wifi, a TP-link 703N with OpenWRT can do it for you for even less than the cost of a RasPi. I've got one opening my garage door from my iPhone.
- j-kidd 14y agoI think both TP-Link and OpenWrt are very much under-appreciated. Glad to see their names appear here. By the way, anyone who is using Gentoo should really try to compile your own OpenWrt images. It is a fun exercise (if using Gentoo is fun for you ;)).