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Tue, 28 Apr 2009
A really small system for SRV-1/SVS code development ...
For an upcoming trip, I wanted to create a very compact SRV-1/SVS code development environment, so I picked up an Eee PC 901 netbook and a DLink DWL-G370AP wifi access point.
It doesn't get much smaller than this. In the photo, behind the robot with SVS is a little black rectangle that is the wireless access point - it is powered by the computer's USB. There is a full size Mac keyboard further in the background that gives some sense of scale. The Eee keyboard is cramped, but certainly functional.
The Eee came with the Xandros Linux distribution, but I replaced it with Ubuntu's Eee version (called "easy peasy" for unknown reasons), and had little difficulty installing the Blackfin gcc toolchain, Java SDK, and SDL libraries. Still on the list is to add the Google Android SDK. Other than the normal set of hassles with migrating to a new system, the setup was relatively painless. Thus far, perhaps 4GB of the available 20GB solid state disk has been used.
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