86Duino

So I just bought an 86Duino
It is a small x86 based single board computer
that has a 300MHz VortexEX system on chip with 128MB of RAM

It can be programed with onboard 2 MB flash like an Arduino
or it can boot an OS from an SD card such as Linux

It doesn't have VGA but it does have PCI-E hosting (So it should be possible to adapt a
video card to it)
as well as USB hosting and a built in micro SD slot

The whole list of capabilities is impressive but it is lacking documentation.

Oh and I got screwed for $25 shipping from Taiwan for a $39 item
so that is one bad thing

Adapting a video card would be very difficult.

Originally Posted by veerain Adapting a video card would be very difficult.

Challenging but somebody did it : http://www.86duino.com/?page_id=85/g...t-vga-to-pci-e

Good Wishes!

Besides it has TTL serial

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And ethernet

Well I was able to get it to "boot" a variation of tinycore Linux, but I am having a problem.
it spits junk over serial and then freezes after "Setting hostname to box"

Booting Core 5.2
Running Linux Kernel 3.8.13-tinycore.
Checking boot options... Done.
Starting udev daemon for hotplug support... Done.
loop: module loaded
r6040: RDC R6040 NAPI net driver,version 0.28 (07Oct2011)
libphy: r6040_eth_mii: probed
Adding 26096k swap on /dev/zram0.  Priority:-1 extents:1 across:26096k SS
Scanning hard disk partitions to create locksource tsc unstable (delta = 166649313 ns)
[1;33m/etc/fstabSwitching to clocksource pit

Setting Language to C Done.
input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input0
squashfs: version 4.0 (2009/01/31) Phillip Lougher
r6040 0000:00:08.0: attached PHY driver [Generic PHY] (mii_bus:phy_addr=0000:00:08.0-0:01)
Possible swap partition(s) enabled.
Loading extensions... Done.
Setting keymap to us Done.
Setting hostname to box Done.
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I attached a 128x64 LCD to my Arduino and created a 3x5 font giving a 32x10 console on the small LCD

Now I need to finish VT100 emulation and see if I can either get the console to get keyboard input from
a local keyboard or somehow attach a keyboard to the Arduino to pass through serial

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