-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:03:50AM +0200, Pieter Palmers wrote: That looks really neat, but it is way overkill for what I'm trying to do-- I doing neither field recording nor X, only running headless softsynths. What "Fanless Low Power CPU 500 Mhz - 256 RAM" are they using exactly? Is it based on a project board like the gumstix? Obviously that CPU has enough floating-point cohones to run JACK and Ardour. What I'm looking for is merely a project CPU that has sufficient resources to run JACK and fluidsynth, and maybe some other softsynths like Elven/AZR3 which I use a lot too. If it's open so I can build an expansion board with one or two USB host ports and an audio chip, then I've got a digital synthesizer. Somewhere in a parts drawer around here I have an LCD display just waiting to be used too, so if it has GPIO pins then the thing can have a user interface too. Anyway, this is the kind of thing that has a "market" of exactly one: me. But seems like all the components necessary to build such a thing are extant. Or are they? - -ken

On 7/25/07, Ken Restivo <ken(a)restivo.org> wrote: Well actually, the "market" might be 2 counting me. I am getting more and more interested in embeded solutions. Building some OpenEmbeded based stuff for audio would be very cool. There surely is a niche market for people willing to built custom hardware solutions. _________________ Marc-Olivier Barre.

What about this, from Linuxdevices.com http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT8275095591.html On 7/25/07, Malte Steiner <steiner(a)block4.com> wrote: -- "Both Rob and I see sound as shapes. I only have to do this (makes a fist) and he knows what sound I mean". - Autechre ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Ernie Dulanowsky www.pulsewidth.ca

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: http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php 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... On 7/25/07, philicorda <philicorda(a)ntlworld.com> wrote:

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:59:43PM +0200, Malte Steiner wrote: Did any of the devices you worked with have firewire? (/me thining about video capture from dv cam devices ...) -Eric Rz.

Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote: Something like this might do the trick.. http://www.mini-itx.com/reviews/pico-itx/default.asp?page=9 -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://lau.linuxaudio.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== "Anything your mind can see you can manifest physically, then it will become reality" - Macka B