The Single Board Computer Database
For the people who are reading these comments and this story, I think a lot of you might be interested in this "discovery" I made (an off-hand HN reference) that I haven't understood in all the time since:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902043" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17902043</a><p>When you look at what was done, they got Firefox and x-window forwarding working on it.  It's super fast.  I don't understand why it isn't just fantastic for running all sorts of things on the embedded Linux level.<p>Why isn't something based on this just super popular?<p>I'm really missing something here.  It's not 512 MB, but 32 MB RAM is (easily) enough to run Go programs.  I don't understand why such a cheap and tiny computer doesn't make it super useful for everything.  At that price and form factor, you could put it in a toothbrush.<p>I just can't believe there is no application for this or something like it.<p>I didn't get a clear answer the last time I asked - do any of you know?  What's the big missing piece, what am I missing here?  This is an SD card form factor!  It's $30!  It has 16 GB filesytem! And wifi, wifi, wifi.  And weighs less than two pennies.<p>according to here: <a href="https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD" rel="nofollow">https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD</a> it draws 50 mA idle.  That means it would run for 2 days on an AA battery (idling).<p>I Googled the processor the above elinux.org page mentions, and got an exact match on the processor revision here: <a href="http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.626327?page=3" rel="nofollow">http://club.dx.com/forums/forums.dx/threadid.626327?page=3</a>  implying it runs 175 Mhz.  More than enough to do anything you want, really.<p>Running a Python script you develop on a desktop should be a breeze.<p>I don't understand why this isn't driving...anything.  Nobody has this thing in anything.  And the remarkable achievement of this device is 4 years old (all the links are 4 years old.)  So....<p>.... can you all help me understand why this isn't being used and hacked into anything?