Re: Dapper on portables

On 03/03/2007 04:41 PM, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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I hear that people are now taking iPods, with modifications, for use
as black-boxes aboard personal aircraft. They cited "a large number of
people willing to program on them", but it sparked an idea.

I'm building a trailer for me to live in, full time. Progress has
been slow until now, but it's at http://CounterMoon.org.

Aboard the trailer I want to have an unswitched supply to a small,
preferably Linux computer a'la iPod. It's duties would be to merely
read a GPS, and if the points had changed, write down the new
location...a bread-crumbs service. I'd love to have it run gpsd, for
example, so as to make that information available to all computers
aboard. It might also act as a security system, There used to be a
StarPilot machine that could do this, but I don't think they're selling
it anymore. I don't want to do any PROM burning.

Is there a battery-powered machine, capable of such little things,
that runs Dapper? (No, no X or anything...) I don't think the Basic
Stamp could pull it off- at some point I'll need to write to a hard
drive, probably a little laptop-style drive...

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What if you tried one of the "Damn Small Linux" boxes designed for auto
use like this:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Car_PC_Barebones_MII_10000

Perhaps you set it up to boot w/o monitor or keyboard and do it's gps
think, configure with a flash drive to store stuff, It looks like they
offer cards that support PCMCIA, so you could add wireless networking
any you can access your data via a point to point wireless from a laptop
. . . . It would take some hacking, but it would work I bet.

Here's another that may require less hacking . . .
https://logisysus.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=99

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