Re: Single Board Computer

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Pedro,

 

Most if not all the single board computers use a single 5V power supply. These can be purchased from the likes of RS or Farnell and come as plug in switch mode (similar to laptop PSU's)

 

Here is a site for heavily discounted single board computers. You will need some work to hook them up to a suitable display (Cheap LCD's can be found on eBay) and a suitable hard disk.

 

You can run Windows 2000/XP etc on these. Best to look for at least a 233+ machine. I have Windows 2000 running on a NS Geode 233Mhz based SBC with a 4.5Gb hard drive and a 6.5" LCD display with touchscreen. You could also run Windows CE but this will require a bit of work if you do it yourself and you will need Platform Builder to build the OS.

 

Check out these links for some SBC prices

 

Diamon Point have a sale of older model (still good though) SBC boards. They don't have sound but you could use a sound blaster with them as they are PCI interface based.

http://www.dpie.com/specials/index.html

 

They have a great SBC (PCM-5820) which has sound, ethernet etc onboard. Bit expensive though at around £327

http://www.advantech.com

 

Check out the ECM-3412 from this lot E-VALUE, as it is very good for the lower price of around £270 compared to the Advantech unit. It is also very small in only being the same size as a 3.5" floppy (minus the connectors)

http://www.evalue-tech.com

 

If you need any further help, let me know

 

Regards

Dave...

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Pedro de Oliveira

To: HA (ukha_d@xxxxxxx)

Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 2:49 PM

Subject: [ukha_d] Single Board Computer

Hi all

 

Well I joined the list too late to get a DDAR so I am trying to come up with something that will do something similar.  What I thought is if I get a SBC with onboard LAN and sound then I can hook up some powered speakers to it and have the same thing as a DDAR (tell me if there is a serious flaw in the logic) playing mp3's from my server. 

My question is anyone know what kind of power supply a SBC needs?  Is it a wallwart or what?  I am after the most unobtrusive way to do this.  Would I need a PIII or would a 486 be enough?  Anyone know of a cheep place to buy a SBC from?  What operating system do these SBC use?

 

Lots of question - but no answers

 

Thanks in advance

Pedro de Oliveira

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