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| Necro:
Interestingly (that's a word, right?) it's actually going two different ways. (Note - this is per a recent wired article I just read so....*shrug*) - The 'maker'/DIY crowd is actually increasing recently due to the reasonable availability of what used to be extremely high end equipment (i.e., 3d printers) to the 'masses'. Also, the availability and support of things like the Arduino, adafruit, and make, are all increasing the interest in the 'hobbyist' realm and those developing new little 'gadgets' that may not be commercially viable (or, if they are, they need a prototype platform). I actually just went out and bought one of those 'learn electronics' kits myself because I simply wasn't 'getting' it when trying to learn just by reading. Definitely interesting, fun, and I'm already thinking of cool little things to do for my cab and just in general. I always could code hack, hopefully I'll be able to hack together electronics kits as well. :) (I use the hack term in the original, hack away at something to change it sense). From the PC/IT side of things, yup. Totally agree. :) |
| Minions:
Who will be the first to try to make an even smaller donkey kong cab!? But really, I love the concept, they already have small pc's you attach to the back of monitors, I'd love to have a linux box in my pocket. I don't see these retailing for less than $50-75 though. If product costs were $25, factor in production and labor, then a small amount of profit and you will get the end user prices. Such potential for DIY projects though. |
| justinjstark:
For about $100 you can get the Marvell Plug Computer 3.0 with a 2ghz arm processor. http://www.slashgear.com/marvell-plug-computer-3-0-updates-sheevaplug-with-wifi-bluetooth-hdd-0567674/ I'm wondering about using one of these in a bartop. It should be plenty beefy to run the classics. |
| Thenasty:
if you can put DOS OS then .36 MAME DOS would run good witht it. |
| MonMotha:
You can't run DOS on an ARM machine. DOS is inherently tied to the PC (x86 w/ BIOS and specific well-known IO/memory locations) architecture. You can, however, run Linux on larger ARM processors quite readily, and there are usually ready-made ports for these development type boards, and MAME runs fairly decently on Linux. |
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