Amateur rocketeers should use these tiny PDA's as the brains in any number of space experiments. Microsatellites immediately come to mind. So much for teledesic...take l0pht's guerilla.net idea and put it into orbit.
How about an amateur lunar explorer...or better yet, asteroid explorer. The law states the first one there can claim ownership of the mineral rights. I think I want an asteroid of my own.
But seriously, with dirt cheap micro computers that have real processing power, space exploration could really be put into the hands of amateurs and educational institutions.
The NDA doesn't matter...With the source release right along side the chip release, you'll still be compiling kernel sources on your brand spanking new Merced machine. The only difference is the fact that we'll have to choke down a buggy release and fix it rather than building a reliable kernel from the ground up.
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Amateur rocketeers should use these tiny PDA's as the brains in any number of space experiments. Microsatellites immediately come to mind. So much for teledesic...take l0pht's guerilla.net idea and put it into orbit.
How about an amateur lunar explorer...or better yet, asteroid explorer. The law states the first one there can claim ownership of the mineral rights. I think I want an asteroid of my own.
But seriously, with dirt cheap micro computers that have real processing power, space exploration could really be put into the hands of amateurs and educational institutions.
These guys could really use something like the crusoe based PDA's. http://www.aeropac.org/aeropac/index.html
The NDA doesn't matter...With the source release right along side the chip release, you'll still be compiling kernel sources on your brand spanking new Merced machine. The only difference is the fact that we'll have to choke down a buggy release and fix it rather than building a reliable kernel from the ground up.