Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote: [...] > That is truly a work of art. It looks like there is also some sort of > netbook sitting on top some kind of a router in the picture. I had to look > twice at that part, at first glance it looked like you have the whole > thing wired up to a coffeemaker. Yeah, it's an old eee which I was using as a serial console, sitting on top of a UPS. Incidentally, if you want a small low-power easily hackable ARM box for doing Lua-related stuff (or otherwise!) on, I can strongly recommend the Mele A1000 (or its identical twin the Mele A2000). 512MB RAM, 2GB internal storage, SD, ethernet, wifi, full HD HDMI out, and decently fast SATA. When it's actually in its case it has a very neat SATA cradle in the top which means you can just plug a notebook hard drive directly into it. Pictures here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/internet-player-google-android-memory/dp/B008O6RCZ8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1354273405&sr=8-1 From a hobbyist point of view, it's great because it will automatically boot off a specially formatted SD card --- no fiddling with uboot or serial consoles necessary. Just write an Ubuntu image onto the card and it works. It's completely unbrickable which makes it ideal for hacking. Even better, it's cheap. Half the price of a CuBox or twice that of a Raspberry Pi. The downsides are that you have to share that 512MB with the GPU, and you can't turn off the GPU entirely; the maximum available to the CPU is about 500MB. And if you *do* need a serial console you have to get one of those ghastly TTL converters (you can see mine in the photo hanging down from the left hand side). -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ "There is nothing in the world so dangerous --- and I mean *nothing* │ --- as a children's story that happens to be true." --- Master Li Kao, │ _The Bridge of Birds_
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