TWO interesting BOARDS COMING DOWN THE pipe

Hey, it’s a hardware twofer! Here’s two platforms coming down the pipe:

First up is the Mimo Dreamplug, the current in a continued expansion of choices for very tiny, single-board Linux computers. The Dreamplug must be very capable of just about any type of task you can throw at it. With a 1.2GHz Marvell Sheeva CPU, eSATA, fiber optic/TOSLINK, WiFi, Bluetooth, two Gigabit Ethernet connections, as well as 512 MB of RAM, we’re thinking this might be used for just about anything. It’s a little pricy at $250, however that’s  what you pay for all those features. No idea when it will be available, though. never mind, you can get the same thing for $150 here. Thanks, [Scott].

Next up is the Kinetis KL25Z freedom Board, an Arduino-compatable, Cortex-M0+ based dev board being made offered for pre-order. The specs on this maker seem pretty good – with a 48MHz ARM chip, on-board accelerometer, a capacitive touch ‘slider’ built into the PCB, and OpenSDA for a USB debug interface, you must be able to make a few awesome projects with this board. As a neat bonus, it costs $13, as well as Freescale is giving away a version of their Codewarrior advancement environment (limited to 128kB, however that’s all the Flash the Kinetis has). Hopefully, it’ll be a much a lot more open advancement platform than what our own [Mike Szczys] has been able to wrangle from the STM32 board that has been floating around. The Kinetis must be offered this fall.

Thanks [Impulse405] as well as [Hussam] for sending these ideas in.