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Space Cube – the World's Smallest Linux PC
Barence writes "Meet the Space Cube — the world's smallest fully functional PC. Primarily designed for use in space, it somehow manages to cram a working PC with USB ports, card readers, audio outputs and proprietary interfaces into a tiny cube chassis measuring just two inches square. It runs a basic Linux front-end, which the blogger takes a look at, and there are some great photos of the device being loomed over by everyday objects like coffee mugs and cellphones. It has connections for controlling various electronics used by ESA, NASA and JAXA, but it will also apparently be for sale to the public soon, for use by amateur engineers and robotics clubs."
Would they let you pass with that in an airport?
Analytic & algebraic topology of locally Euclidean meterization of infinitely differentiable Riemmanian manifold
does it run... oh... it does? Awsome.
I mentioned tinker-toys once in a post - now I'm modded down for life.
...measure two inches square?
I hadn't known there were so many idiots in the world until I started using the Internet -Stanislaw Lem
Not fully functional.
It's interesting how this articles follows the one about the NASA space virus (http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/27/1231224)
I didn't found something funny to put here.
Dumbass, its a "Space Cube". It should be measured in the fourth dimension as 2 square inches/sec.
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
the Gammima.AG worm? I hear that's popular in space nowadays
Ahh, so Locutus has a mini-me and this is his home. How cute!
Plus I hear it can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these puppies! You might actually be able to run a GUI.
If someone says he and his monkey have nothing to hide, they almost certainly do.
Who'd a thunk that the Borg would have such humble beginnings?
I have to say, it does explain their relative ease of Assimilation...
. No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Too bad GPS is useless in SPACE. And on the other hand a mobile phone is probably not the most reliable solution to grab sensor outputs and have them relayed to earth. The price of text messages alone would be outrageous ...
Dumbass, its a "Space Cube". It should be measured in the fourth dimension as 2 square inches/sec.
No, that would make it a "Time Cube", and that would be a Bad Thing.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.
Just some quick back of a fag packet calculation
Please don't tell us what you used as a writing utensil.
I don't think there are many spots on earth where the difference of size will make having such a small system affordable. Perhaps on the ISS but past that even NYC Where property is like (a blatenly wild guess with no facts other then by rumor) $1000 per square foot. There is no cost savings, and a normal rack mounted computer will offer better savings.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.