Hey,
Are there any ~US$100 SBCs with audio and USB support with a processor good enough to do MP3 decoding?
If not ~US$100, then what would be the cheapest?
TIA,
Siddhartha
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19 years ago
~$100 SBC with audio and USB
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19 years ago
Have you considered one of the Geode Based Thin Clients? These often have a disk on chip, built in network, quantity of RAM, USB ports etc. and of course network interface.
I think that Some have IDE headers, others have PCMCIA cards.
They nearly all have Sound output, so build an Linux based MP3 player that either uses a built in hard disk or gets its songs from a server somehwere.
On ebay, these seem to go quite cheaply, for a few tens of dollars.
Cheers, Vincent
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19 years ago
Have you considered one of the Geode Based Thin Clients? These often have a disk on chip, built in network, quantity of RAM, USB ports etc. and of course network interface.
I think that Some have IDE headers, others have PCMCIA cards.
They nearly all have Sound output, so build an Linux based MP3 player that either uses a built in hard disk or gets its songs from a server somehwere.
On ebay, these seem to go quite cheaply, for a few tens of dollars.
Cheers, Vincent
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19 years ago
I use a VIA EPIA board (Mini-ITX format) for this purpose. It is running diskless, booting linux via ethernet. Via does offer several different boards.
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19 years ago
Look for the compaq ia2, which goes for $10 to $20 + $30 shipping (that's the catch). Some sellers might be willing to ship you just the main board (we got one for $5 shipping). With a +5v power (5 watts), you can set up an embedded firewall/web/mp3 server.
By the way, we will provide the Video, Audio, Modem (lucent) and external USB ethernet drivers with our Compact Flash Drives.
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