> On 4/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You ask for tiny appliance that have very good D/A and A/D. >> >> You could take what ever cheap ARM processor that run linux, use the >> AC97 >> output of some SoC based on the ARM cpu with very good analog convertor. >> Then you could run VLC on it, control by a remote control or an other >> computer. But you will have some problem for latency but that could be >> controled by using the less costly protocol. >> >> That could cost around 200. It could be also used to listen to internet >> radio. >> > > If a crowd gets together and specs this design, and it's > cost-effective, Traversal can build it. >
http://wiki.gp2x.org/wiki/MP2520F is a heart of the GPX2 console running under Linux. If you add good quality DAC ADC, you also have a tiny LCD pannel as screen. There is even a IDE port for CDROM or HD mass storage. You could also put a infrared port for remote control. With ethernet connection, you could have a hifi audio module. If you look for those tiny appliance. Cheap mother board for NAS could be also usefull. Some exist with USB port but IDE is better. You can't have access to "SMART" information with USB connection. 4 sata connections (or more) could a killer app if the card cost less than 100$. You just have to be carefull to the overall performance (cheap NAS are sloooow). As the funny geek ideas, PCI-e computer card could be an other product. Put a Turion 64 (for low power) on an pci board with 2 GB solded on it and a CF has HD(you could output ethernet, end even dvi and audio from the chipset). Make a driver for linux that make look like the board as a network card. So you could create a personnal cluster inside a typical PC case. This could be interresting for 3D graphics, or even for dist-cc (a means to distribute gcc compilation) Nicolas Boulay _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
