Gumstix micro-computers

[Jay Vaughan]

> The Arduino is cool, and perhaps even better suited for the  
> application
> I have in mind, with one very big exception: its limited amount of
> memory. There is a project that does more or less the same thing  
> that I
> have in mind, with the same family of MPU that the Arduino has, but  
> with
> a lot more memory, 128 KB or so.
>

so then just use the right AVR for the job .. the Arduino is just an  
educational packaging of the AVR's ..

> Other than that, Linux/Unix is familiar to me, whereas a whole new
> environment wouldn't be.
>

I think you could deal with a minimal C runtime and subsystem easily  
enough ..

> On the other hand, if you get a couple of these Gumstix modules, all  
> of
> a sudden you've handed over a couple of hundreds of dollars.


Exactly.

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Jay Vaughan