Alan McGovern wrote: > I'm just throwing out some ideas at the moment for my final year > project, and mdx4ever (on #mono) was joking about having a hardware > device that downloads torrents. Thing is, I'd be interested in giving > that a shot ;) > > So, what i'm wondering at the moment is how hard would it be to get > crap together for creating a device that can communicate via ethernet, > handle reading/writing to a hard drive (or memory card, or any storage > device) which can also run mono. Memory usage is typically well under > 20 megs for standard usage of monotorrent and the most CPU intensive > part of the whole torrent process is the SHA1 hashing, so i could > probably get away with fairly low end hardware. > > So as i know nothing about this topic, any links on reading material, > tips or advice would be appreciated. If this is going to involve a lot > of C/C++, i'll probably give it a miss as the time it would take to > get up to speed on that wouldn't be worth it considering next year is > final year, and i should be studying. Have a look at the TS-7200 single board computer for a cheap ARM-based system or the TS-5300 for a more expensive AMD-based system both from Technologic Systems (http://www.embeddedarm.com/epc/prod_main.htm). They come with a custom Linux distro, but can also run Debian. Both come with a compact flash drive for non-volatile storage. I don't know if they run mono, but its a starting point. Maybe, email the company and ask if they have any mono experience.
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