Two interesting boards coming down the pipe

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Hey, it's a hardware twofer! Here's two platforms coming down the pipe: First up is the Mimo Dreamplug, the latest in a continued expansion of choices for very tiny, single-board Linux computers. The Dreamplug should be extremely capable of just about any task you can throw at it. With a 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU, eSATA, fiber optic/TOSLINK, WiFi, Bluetooth, two Gigabit Ethernet connections, … [Read more...]

Put your ARM skills to the test with the Freescale Make It Challenge

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Throw down your mad skills and you might win some cash while you're at it. [Zeta] tipped us off that Freescale just announced a new challenge. They call it the Make It Challenge and it centers around their 32-bit Kinetis microcontrollers. These are ARM Cortex-M4 chips and if you're selected to compete they'll offer their development hardware at a discount for you to get started. You'll need … [Read more...]