Toradex's Robin stuffs Atom-based computer on credit card-sized module
By Ross Miller 
posted February 27th 2009 6:06PM
posted February 27th 2009 6:06PM
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Ok I'm sold.
Looking for 9999 more wanters.
998..... Im with ya....
9998**
who's putting the $1.44million down payment for the 10k
I want one for each jeans pocket!
Make that 9997!
Seriously, I'd build my own supah smartphone around this!
9999? Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these!
Seriously though, who wouldn't mind a Beowulf Cluster that can fit in a shoebox?
That is insane!
Does this mean a super-smart phone is possible?
No, Super Duper Smart Phones!
My thoughts exactly.. I want to see this put into a smartphone.. So I can not only play counter strike on it.. But also host my CS 1.6 server FOOL!
i spy a SIM slot, bottom left :]
(if you cant see, its a metal casing with an openning on the left, pretty awesom!!)
oh crap, srry i didnt see "microSD" lol, but weird, doesnt that slot look at least a bit to big/wide to be a microSD slot?
microSD slot != SIM slot
Is that a computer in your pocket or are you just hyperventilating?
I suppose the holy grail is getting a projector, a camera and something like that MIT gesture system from a while back on this thing.
.. is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just hyperthreading?
mmmmm, perfect to use as onboard computer in my car
why would you need it to be so small if it was going in your car? There is plenty of space in your car's dash.
Net...pocket?
netwallet
Netcard.
I hereby claim this term. You listening, Psion?
A group of enthusiasts should do the same as openmoko, openpandora did, make an opensource net...pocket or whatever !
im sooo sold if you just add a case with touchscreen !
Now let's fit it in a real credit card shall we? :D
How does this thing get cooled btw, even Atoms need cooling right?
The big chip isn't the atom, but the board cooled be cleverly cooled passivly. It makes a change that this isn't stupidly expensive/
This looks more like what Intel had in mind when they created the Atom processor
okay, so now I need to hack a gamepad and an LCD on to this thing and I could have my own Pandora.
anyone else feel that MAME based gaming is going to get REAL BIG REAL FAST with all these lil motherboards available on the cheap?
MAME will eat these boards for lunch, unless you stick with the likes of Pacman
Anyway, to answer your comment seriously: I doubt it. I've got a MAME cabinet, and it can easily house a regular PC. If I needed something small, I'd just get a nice ITX system like Zotac's 9300-ITX WiFi
That's one embedded mofo of a mobo.
You had me until 512MB RAM.... come on live a little and add an inch to the board or something for 1GB RAM. I didn't think 512 was an option these days....
They have another version that's exactly as you described, about an inch longer, and has a so-dimm slot for up to 2gb.
pocketPC.com,
just checked and Microsoft already has the domain...
Bob; yeah, the PocketPC's were available in the 1990's. They're getting better, but they're STILL crap, as to be expected of a Microsoft product.
Just put a system on a USB stick already!
thats a micro sd slot, i thought it was a normal sdhc card.. Damm that thing is tiny
Ill take 12
What i want to know is when this is going to be integrated into Pandora 2.0?
Now THAT would be sweet!
yeah make that 2GB...
Finally I can cut my coke with something that has decent processing power.
I was picturing the same thing, except some engineer writing some code for the thing, needing that little boost.
net wallet!
damn nice! now only if they could use Nvidia's Tegra platform (http://www.nvidia.com/object/platform.html) for graphics instead of stupid intel integrated crap. Cram a few more gigs of SSD and RAM and you have yourself a bitchin' machine!
I wonder if it will run OS-X :)
The question is: Can it run Crysis?
stfu
Slap a GSM radio and touch screen on this thing and kill the iPhone.
and then everybody remembers that the battery life on this thing isnt very good.
Phonize it.
The actual CPU board itself is tiny, yes, but this is NOT usable as a computer in it's own right - you still need to hook up the outputs for VGA, USB, etc. This is why the site has the Lily carrier board which has all those outputs... and that in itself is another 200 euro.
Nice research Delphy. They should bring out a baseboard designed for Robin which is much smaller than the Lily. With only the connectors for USB SATA and VGA, maybe LVDS.
Have you seen the input power range? Cool: 5 to 14.5V :-)
I'm a big fan of the Aladdin allusion... oh the tech is pretty cool too.