Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.
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On a hard drive. No, not a motherboard connected to a hard drive, a hard drive by itself. Sprite is brilliant.
Sorry to hijack, but does someone have a link to the talk? Article mentions it, but link no longer works.
Idk, needs more e-waste :(
Tell that to Samsung!
I would tell the government to tell Samsung, but they aren’t as big (and/or they ‘like’ Samsung more).
There is actually a way to run Debian on Lego Mindstorms toy robot kit using ev3dev
Tho I never owned one of these kit, it still pretty cool looking
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The leapfrog leappad used to run linux. People were able to hack them in order to run full on operating systems, by rooting their children’s learning toy
Read an article some years back about someone installing Linux on a hard drive.
Not on a computer with a hard drive. On the embedded ARM core inside the hard drive. One of them anyways, I think this particular hard drive had three CPUs inside it actually.
I had an old iPod nano that was hacked with a light Linux distro. Could even run doom on it… It ran, but wasn’t practical to play it.
The scale at my job that prints labels for price per pound stuff when it boots shows Linux boot stuff.
Once installed Linux on my iPod 5G. Honestly wasn’t worth it cuz it cut battery time in half and only added a couple extra codecs it could play. Doom was strange on the scroll wheel.
The PS3 is not crazy, but has an exotic hardware that optionnally runs Linux.
Does a MicroVAX count?
It was the late 90s. We booted it on whatever we could.
Didn’t someone get a cuecat working? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it.
It’s not entirelly Linux, but there’s a port of FUZIX for the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
