What's the smallest/cheapest single board PC you've seen?

Jul 06, 2005 4 Replies

I'm currently using a mini-ITX board in my robot, but I have a need for something smaller and single voltage and lower power would be nice.



Must be x86 based Must boot from RAM device like USB ramstick Must have USB2 and/or PCI or similar interfacing Composite Video input would be nice Audio I/O important



I've looked around and seen a number of them, but am looking for more optionions. The gumstick looks interesting, but too limited.


Other than the gumstix, I personally havent seen that much out there (that's cheap).

Anybody know the status of the nano-itx boards? These looked pretty promising.

What about a used laptop (I know, your looking for new parts, but jsut for development).

You can get a broken one pretty cheap, rip it to pieces, and put it back together the way you want (it's not all one board in there).

Something like an old sony vaio should have all of what your lookin for (dont know if you can get a usb 2.0 one "cheap")

There is also the PC104 option, but it's not an "all in one" solution.

--Andy P

mlw wrote:

The Artist Formerly Known as Kap'n Salty wrote in news:42cc3dfd$0$32149$ snipped-for-privacy@news.astraweb.com:

VIA has postponed release of the Nano board several times, I have not seen a release date recently, I gave up waiting.

Here is a link to Commel:

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but you will not find a cheap MB there, just real good ones.

Joe

Here is a few options smaller than miniITX:

There are even smaller ones, but they are very expensive and usually require special connectors or base-board.

Paul.

mlw wrote:

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