The board itself is very cool. It has 64MB ram, 4MB flash, bluetooth and an MMC slot (that can accept some sd cards). When powered up, it searches for and connects to my bluetooth access point. Then I can ssh to it and work on things there.
Gumstix is different from most other outfits embedding arm processors for a couple of reasons:
- Their hardware is made to run linux and they make good use of Erik Andersen's buildroot
- There is no development kit to buy--other vendors charge $1k to $3k for the priviledge to develop for their boards
It's all great fun and is an excellent platform to work out embedded issues :)
