Surfing on a Matchbox (1999)

Re:Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) by em3rgent0rdr on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @02:50AM (#44507004)

I was also going to suggest that... But I imagine that the Ethernet port or antennae wire (and necessary battery to power antennae) would dwarf the size of that MCU. But thinking again, I suppose if the rules permit the MCU to be directly wired to the Ethernet cable, then could bitbang an early Ethernet standard with this MCU's pins...

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Re:Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) by st_goliath on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @04:33AM (#44507591)

If you're going to use an Ethernet jack anyway, you might as well use one that has an ARM SoC already built in and runs Linux:

https://www.digikey.at/en/product-highlight/d/digi-intl/digi...

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Re:Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) by jagged-chisel on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @05:41AM (#44507966)

“Obsolete and no longer manufactured.” :-(

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Re:Surfing on a Matchbox (1999) by femto on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:05AM (#44508516)

I'd do a serial connection using the UART. Serial is a perfectly valid transport.

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