I gave my first stompbox presenation at the XCSSA meeting in San Antonio tonight. It was a good mix of old and young geeks, mostly hardware afficianados with a love of the non-standard.
I hope everyone enjoyed my first attempt at presenting to a user group. it was good to meet new people and I’ll definitely try to attend future meetings. XCSSA meets at 7pm on the 3rd Monday of every month in the Nail Technical Center, San Antonio College.
Rich Jennings presented the the Cubix embedded computer stack. It’s 1.5″ square, runs an ARM[?] processor with 256K of RAM and 2MB of flash. Power consumption is under 100mA for most applications. It runs the open source eCos OS and can be programmed with a number of free and commercial applications.
Nate brought his Nokia 770. The 770 is now officially on my want it now but will have to wait list. It runs a variant of debian complied for the ARM processor and has a lot of potential. The LCD is amazing for a pocket display with fonts that work great in an xterm. Bluetooth and WIFI round out the connectivity getting you to the net and allowing use of a bluetooth keyboard.
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