On 12/6/07, William Chops Westfield <westfw@mac.com> wrote:
> (there's always the CPU paradox as well.  Once you have enough
> CPU power to  do ethernet and TCP in your "network chip", it's
> almost certainly got enough horsepower left over to do those
> sorts of "trivial" applications you're talking about as well.
> There's talk of using the Wiznet module or one of the Lantronix
> modules as the communications channel for an Arduino.  It's
> not so far-fetched, but I find it depressing; those both
> contain CPUs more capable than the AVR they'd be serving.)
>

I would not think you can easily use the CPUs inside
Lantronix since it is not that open. They also offer
SOC chips with built-in firmware (could be updated).
Potentially this could be hacked but I have not seen
one yet.
http://www.lantronix.com/device-networking/embedded-device-servers/xchip-direct.html

I was tempting to play with he Xport since our component
engineer has some samples. But I do not have enough
time and knowledge right now.

Then again, the DSP engine inside the cheap optic mouse
sensor is much more powerful than a 16F/18F so last time I
were looking into the possibility of using it for photoelectric
sensors but gave up later.

There are also interesting hacks for those cheap
cable modems and wireless routers.


Xiaofan
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