Installed Mozilla Firefox on the right (as oppose to left, not as in correct) comp.

PC104 choices

PC104 vs EBX: EBX is basically a laptop without the case. There is a cutout model in of each in the lab. The PC104 is much smaller and needs adapters to connected the interfaces. The EBX does not need adapters.

Parvus
- PC104 400 MHz celeron can be easily switched to a faster Pentium (UPDATE: No processor is soldered on).
- Development kit comes with DOS only (But a Slackerware Linux is coming soon)
- Development kit hardware can be used with other PC104 hardware

ADLogic:
- not sure about smartcore
- checking prices on pentiums

Arcom
- Nice development kits (Linux pre-installed)
- Limited availability of higher speed systems PC104 could force us to an EXB

My favorite is the Parvus, the only fear is getting our Linux to run in it. Any comments from anyone else?

Okay, I figured out that I'm probably going to have to cross compile it whatever i try to develope for the iPAQ. They have these things called toolchains which allows me to compile on a "computer" and then moving the software to an iPAQ. Next time i come to the lab I will (if no one has gotten there before me) connect the computer to the iPAQ. Okay, I'm getting tired for the day. Since I don't have a key, I think i'll be back monday around 2.

So Dan and I came down 2 days ago and connected the piccolo system with the first computer and then connected the 2nd computer to remotely (wirelessly) access the piccolo and display it on flight gear. Everything seems to work fine except that I think that we will need a power supply that can output a constant 12V as oppose to a bootleg looking power used computer power supply that outputs something like 10.9V. It works because Picoolo is apparently made for 8-20V but the software complains that it is at a low voltage. I did some looking around and sent dan a power supply that I think we should buy. We'll see what happens. Good thing is that our piccolo system at least WORKS.

Today, I think I've just recieve the task that I think I will most likely be working on for awhile. It is an iPAQ which will serve as basicly a PC104 standin. On it is installed a distro of linux called fimilar which I am completely new to, and spent most of the afternoon reading about. I found out that it's much like any linux distro and so far my plan is to:

1. be able to communicate with the iPAQ via this Windows 2k system I'm sitting on right now.
2. be able to compile code (natively?) or compile it somewhere that I can run software it.
3. Read serial data with that software from #2

And from there I'll see where this takes me. Time for more reading.