Linux Microcontroller Board

WillWare writes "Here's a nifty microcontroller project being done by Ryerson Amateur Radio Club in Canada. They are building a SIMM board with a Motorola Dragonball (same processor as the Palm Pilot), 4 meg of flash, 8 meg of DRAM, some digital I/O pins, ports for Ethernet and RS-232, and able to drive a 320x240 LCD panel. This board is intended as a target for their MMU-less Linux port, which has previously been running on Palm Pilots. There has been mention on the mailing list of the possibility of running a Python interpreter on this board. This would be a huge win for rapid app development on embedded controllers. "

Comments

How about Flux OSKit?

[spacey]

The pages for the flux oskit indicates that currently it only works on the x86, which is not an ideal target for a system this small.

-Peter

Heh, nibbling at Windows from both ends

[AJWM]

With Linux already chewing at the Windows NT market on the server end, this is going to start nibbling away at the WinCE market at the embedded/palm top end.

Cool.

(I'm going to get me some of these. (Too bad the Ethernet is 10bT and not 10b2 -- the hub is going to be just as big as the rest of the cluster. Wearable supercomputer, anyone? :) Now, how about a small cam interface...)