> Where can you get these, and how much do they cost?

I'm not exactly sure what they have decided to do
-Bareboards or Populated?
 I havn't been monitoring the list much, do to my limited time

but I think they were going to populate the "hard to do" stuff
  ---- like the SA-1110  (which is only available in BGA....hard for the DIY
guy/gal)

As for cost, sadly, I don't think they came up with a price yet

The board they are putting together is a modified lart.  The original
Lart used the SA-1100 (which uses a hard to find EDODRAM)
but the new Lart (Ballon2 or something like that) uses SDRAM

so I think it will be cheaper than the original.

BUT, Alphea 1  (  http://www.aleph1.co.uk/armlinux/index.html )
has a development kit  (really expensive):

"LART package costs GBP440, and KSB costs GBP218, and Ethernet costs GBP120
all including air postage. Add GBP35 for carriage by courier service rather
than air post. These prices EXCLUDE British tax: in Britain add 17.5% VAT "

When I looked into making one, the hardest thing was to get
the PCB's in small qtys somewhat cheap.
I think it's a 6 layer board.  Since they are doing a batch of around a100
PCBs I think they were able to get the cost down

goodluck
g



----- Original Message -----
From: "michael brown" <n5qmg@AMSAT.ORG>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:47 AM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Car MP3 player. (oh no, again!!!)


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Crum"
> > Subject: Re: [EE]: Car MP3 player. (oh no, again!!!)
>
>
> > instead of just sticking a desktop computer in your car you might want
to
> > look into the Lart
> > it's' a Strongarm based embedded computer that will run linux
>
> I like what I see out there.  I'm looking at buying a CerfCube (3"x3"x3")
> right now.  It's strongarm based also. 32mbram, 16mb flash, 3 serials,
> 10BaseT ethernet, USB type "B" :-(  Check it out here: www.cerfcube.com
> Seems to be a nice linux distro.  I liked what I saw so much, I'm gonna
send
> them a resume.  ;-)
>
> > I guess there are some people on their email list that are planning on
> > ordering PCB's soon
>
> looked to be a "roll your own" project.  Since I can't solder SMT stuff,
can
> you get the boards pre-populated?  I can handle "normal" soldering (such
as
> mini-din connectors), but SMT is out of the question for me.
> ;-D
>
> I hope this is not getting too far "off topic".  I most certainly would
use
> PIC-type micro's along with my SBC endeavors.  They're a match made in
> heaven.  It's all EE anywho.
>
> --
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