ONLamp: Introduction to the Gumstix Tiny Linux Computer

“The Gumstix computer is a tiny 200 or 400 Mhz single board
computer based on the Intel XScale processors. with Linux Kernel
2.6.0 in flash ram. They have 64 mb of RAM. You can get your
Gumstix as a tiny little board, or a ‘full fledged’ computer. I
orded mine with a 128 mb MMC memory card. So what do you get in a
tiny package? A 400 mhz Linux box that will run on 3 AAA
batteries.

“My goal is to create a small geoannotating computer. I want a
general platform to which I can connect arbitrary sensors and other
annotation devices and link them with continuous GPS tracklogs. But
first things first…”

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