I'd be interested in hearing if anyone's used Efika boards in this type of application. Granted, the apps need to have been ported to PPC, but these things are pretty inexpensive (US $99) and seem to have pretty decent power given their very small size and low cost:
<br><br><a href="http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php">http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php</a><br><br>I put in an order a few days ago, and can't wait to get my hands on it and get Debian onto it. Looks like lots of potential for interesting embedded apps...
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">philicorda</b> <<a href="mailto:philicorda@ntlworld.com">philicorda@ntlworld.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:59 +0200, Malte Steiner wrote:<br>> As far as I know Gumstix would require you to crosscompile a lot of<br>> stuff to get it running, not worth the hassle. I would recommend more<br>> compatible solutions like the mentioned VIA boards. For a freelance
<br>> project I had several embedded computers here. A Via system which was<br>> smaller than Shuttles, passive cooled with 500mhz. It could include a<br>> hdd but I ran it from CF card. But my favorite was a smaller system of
<br>> the size of 3 CDs stack, 166 Mhz with 128mb and driven by a CF card. It<br>> even has audio in and out but I dont had the chance to check it out<br>> because I have to ship it to the customer soon. Later I can send some
<br>> links but I am in a hurry now...<br><br>There is a version on PD for ARM that uses integer maths:<br><br><a href="http://gige.xdv.org/pda/">http://gige.xdv.org/pda/</a><br><br>There is a gumstix port on the web page!
<br><br>Should be able to knock up some kind of recorder and synth with it.<br><br>><br>> Cheers,<br>><br>> Malte<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Linux-audio-user mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org">
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