The CM-X270 is a small Computer-on-Module board designed to serve as a building block in embedded applications. The CM-X270W has all the components required to run operating systems such as Linux and Windows CE. Ready packages for these operating systems are available from CompuLab.
$52 each in quantities of 1,000. Anyone want to sell me just one?
LED Temperature Thermometer Project
This LED temperature thermometer project will display the room temperature where it is placed using 10 LEDs, with each LED representing 2 degree Fahrenheit step, forming a bargraph display.
Tech-Recipes.com – ZFS: Ten reasons to reformat your hard drives
The much anticipated release of the new ZFS filesystem in Solaris 10 will revolutionize the way system administrators (and executives) think about and work with filesystems.
USB
My very next step is a PCMCIA USB adapter. Fortunately these things aren’t too expensive if you’re patient on ebay. I may even build a small 5V power supply that taps off the 12V in to allow more devices. From this point on any other peripherals will have to be USB or RS-232. The obvious advantage of USB is that the device can be powered by the port.
GPS
Now what good is a mobile router if it doesn’t know where itself is? The original stompbox image supports gpsd and I plan to get one of the small “gps mice” that are on ebay for $50-60. Once we know where we are and export that information with gpsd we can use a wide range of scripts or apps to access it. A laptop running linux in the car can get gps data over the wifi, we can send the data off to a web server for real-time vehicle tracking and we can also log to a local disk for some war driving logs.
HERE’S a sports car you could pullover very smartly in — a Ferrari knitted from WOOL.
Let’s hope she used a bargain basement wool. 12 miles is about 19312 meters or just over 134 skeins of Lion Brand Wool.