The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform [LWN.net]

The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform

Posted Nov 14, 2008 13:13 UTC (Fri) by deleteme (guest, #49633)
In reply to: The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform by rvfh
Parent article: The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform

You can build something like that for $100 with wifi.

wrt54G (slow arm) $50
2 port linksys serial hack $10
2x arduino mini pro (store in sweden, but there are others) You can use something like the robostix) but that is gumstix specific.

then you can have you own Rou-copter

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The Gumstix Overo - a miniature X Window System platform

Posted Dec 3, 2008 5:32 UTC (Wed) by HalfMoon (guest, #3211) [Link]

WRT54G is a MIPS beast, not ARM.

While there is an official Arduino I think the Freeduino family is more interesting (like the Sanguino, much more capacity; or the BBB, which is extremely breadboard-friendly) ... unless you have a hard time programming an AVR8 microcontroller with GCC and want some handholding via those not-really-C tools. If you can do MS-Windows, and have e.g. an AVR Dragon, Atmel's AVR studio gives you a great symbolic debugger.

Note that if you're a hardware hacker, one issue with Overo (or any OMAP3 board) is likely to be its use of 1.8V I/O interfaces instead of more common 3.3V. That's good for battery operation, and if you have no fear of designing a board, then it's just something to remember.