Dapper on portables

[Patton Echols]

On 03/03/2007 04:41 PM, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
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>     I hear that people are now taking iPods, with modifications, for use
> as black-boxes aboard personal aircraft.  They cited "a large number of
> people willing to program on them", but it sparked an idea.
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>     I'm building a trailer for me to live in, full time. Progress has
> been slow until now, but it's at http://CounterMoon.org.
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>     Aboard the trailer I want to have an unswitched supply to a small,
> preferably Linux computer a'la iPod.  It's duties would be to merely
> read a GPS, and if the points had changed, write down the new
> location...a bread-crumbs service.  I'd love to have it run gpsd, for
> example, so as to make that information available to all computers
> aboard. It might also act as a security system, There used to be a
> StarPilot machine that could do this, but I don't think they're selling
> it anymore. I don't want to do any PROM burning.
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>     Is there a battery-powered machine, capable of such little things,
> that runs Dapper?  (No, no X or anything...) I don't think the Basic
> Stamp could pull it off- at some point I'll need to write to a hard
> drive, probably a little laptop-style drive...
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What if you tried one of the "Damn Small Linux" boxes designed for auto 
use like this:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/store/Mini_ITX_Systems/Car_PC_Barebones_MII_10000

Perhaps you set it up to boot w/o monitor or keyboard and do it's gps 
think, configure with a flash drive to store stuff, It looks like they 
offer cards that support PCMCIA, so you could add wireless networking 
any you can access your data via a point to point wireless from a laptop 
. . . .  It would take some hacking, but it would work I bet.

Here's another that may require less hacking . . .
https://logisysus.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=99