On Thursday, January 15, 2015 08:41:17 AM Terje Mathisen did opine And Gene did reply: > http://linuxgizmos.com/tiny-fanless-mini-pc-runs-linux-on-quad-core-am > d-soc/ > > This little guy starts at $129 and includes a serial port which should > make it trivial to attach a Sure GPS board. > > With a dual or quad 64-bit CPU, both SATA and SD storage connectors > and versions that support multiple Gbit/s Ethernet ports, it would > seem to be a nice NTPD startum 1 server. > > Terje
With the proper I/O card in that weird shape format that would give the equ of one of the Mesanet cards such as a 5i25, this might also be a great bit of kit for the entry level CNC machining crowd. We are currently using a pair of the D525MW Intel dual core atom based boards, which does come with a header for a parport, one setup for software stepper driving a 4 axis mill, and one with a 5i25 card driving a lathe. But the D525MW was disco'd better than a year ago. Does anyone know what the IRQ latency is? It might be competition for the beaglebone black with its mass of programmable I/O. That CNC project, based on LinuxCNC, which you can google, is known as MachineKIT. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/questions
