On 11/9/2011 10:58 AM, Ap | Alsjeblaft! wrote:
How about a plug computer like the Guruplug Server (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-31-guruplug-server-standard.aspx) or TonidoPlug2 (http://www.tonidoplug.com/)? They're about $120, but have somewhat better specs. I've been thinking about turning one of these into my own ultraportable localhosts for a while now.
$50 is my upper limit on cost, as my eventual goal is to create an open source hardware/software platform for a toy for my 3 year old.
I'm considering making an exception on the BeagleBone purely to get a dev platform NOW, then port later to increasingly smaller platforms[ie BeagleBone to RaspberryPi, and then if possible even smaller.
After the toy project, my next goal is pushing down to the "web server on a business card" space. http://hackaday.com/2008/09/25/web-server-on-a-business-card-part-2/ <http://hackaday.com/2008/09/25/web-server-on-a-business-card-part-2/>With TI's new ARM System on a Chip running under 10$, it SHOULD be possible to get it down to under 20$ for a business card running a web server and PHP... To go below the $10 mark will probably require pushing into an even smaller chip.
I don't actually think it will be possible to "run php" at that level, but it may be possible to use a tool like HipHop to convert PHP code to C code that can compile and run on the business card.
And if not, well, this is all just for fun anyway. :-)
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