Dapper on portables

[Brian Fahrlander]

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    I hear that people are now taking iPods, with modifications, for use
as black-boxes aboard personal aircraft.  They cited "a large number of
people willing to program on them", but it sparked an idea.

    I'm building a trailer for me to live in, full time. Progress has
been slow until now, but it's at http://CounterMoon.org.

    Aboard the trailer I want to have an unswitched supply to a small,
preferably Linux computer a'la iPod.  It's duties would be to merely
read a GPS, and if the points had changed, write down the new
location...a bread-crumbs service.  I'd love to have it run gpsd, for
example, so as to make that information available to all computers
aboard. It might also act as a security system, There used to be a
StarPilot machine that could do this, but I don't think they're selling
it anymore. I don't want to do any PROM burning.

    Is there a battery-powered machine, capable of such little things,
that runs Dapper?  (No, no X or anything...) I don't think the Basic
Stamp could pull it off- at some point I'll need to write to a hard
drive, probably a little laptop-style drive...

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 Brian Fahrländer                 Christian, Conservative, and Technomad
 Evansville, IN                              http://Fahrlander.net/brian
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