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Web Server On a Business Card
mollyhackit writes "We've seen tiny Web servers in the past, but rarely ones that are home-built. Here's a guide to building your own tiny web server with a footprint no larger than a business card. The design uses two major chips. One handles the SPI to MAC/PHY translation for the ethernet jack. The other chip is a PIC24F, which hosts a simple web server and reads files stored on a microSD card. All components run at a low 3.3 volts. Part of the compactness of the design comes from the PIC24F having programmable pins; only four jumper wires were needed. The single-sided SMD design is easy to manufacture at home. Part 1 covered many of the 24F's features and both posts have full code available."
If every a server was going to be slashdotted....
Cruise TT
I don't have any 1cm thick business cards
Loser. I have hundreds!
I think he accidentally the whole server....
This webserver would fit inside a medium sized LAMP...
SURELY NOT!!!!!
Is that a web server in your pocket sir, or are you just happy to see me?
"We've seen tiny Web servers in the past, but rarely ones that are home-built."
You couldn't even bother to read the first sentence of the summary?
best first every!
"As a controls engineer I can just imagine tracking the temp in every room of my house with respect to outside temp and setting up a sweet PID controller on my thermostat to control temps much better than a single temp sensor in a central location in the house. Toss some flappers into the air ducts and you could probably set up a house to keep a temp +-5 degrees throughout the entire house."
Or I could buy a programmable thermostat that does all that.
Shai Schticks:"You don't make peace with friends, you make peace with enemies"
I don't understand this obsession with making things smaller and smaller - I want my stuff to be bigger and bigger. For example, I have my web server inside an old Cray Y-MP shell (not with original hardware, mind you). Then again, I live in an old church and have plenty of room to spare...
SIG: TAKE OFF EVERY 'CAPTAIN'!!
When I see a really good looking woman, I might want her. But, if the woman is really really good looking, I might say to myself "that's some really expensive pussy. Can I afford it?"
Having a web server built right into my wallet is very convenient. I can check the balance without taking my wallet out of my pants. Smoothness counts in such situations.
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
Or a Cray-2 with little plastic fish floating around, but the Fluorinert would probably bankrupt you :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
I can't understand why I'd want a daily-driver that can go 225 mph, but I value the technological pursuits of Formula 1 teams to come up with things that make normal cars lighter, faster, more efficient in a scale I can actually appreciate on a day-to-day basis.
Ah! A car metaphor! I didn't even plan that.
I haven't posted in so long, my sig is out of date.
Did you take out the pews to make room for the garbage?
Method of processing duck feet
You can use it as a ninja-camouflaged webserver hidden in your flower pot so that the police raiding your hideout will never find it?
Dunno.
Geek 1: "I won't be satisfied until I need an electron microscope to see my web server!"
Geek 2: "I won't be satisfied until I need a crane to plug in my web server!"
Would that make them Cray-fish?
-- "Other than that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"
Can you fit an ENIAC in that church?
...a Rolidex Cluster of these?