Thread: Hard Drive shock protection
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Unread 06-11-2005, 02:13
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Re: Hard Drive shock protection
Do you really need a full computer? Or a full computer on the mower? what do you want to do with the mower and the program? Could you get away with something like a microcontroller? If that wouldnt be enough, you could take a linksys WRT 54G wireless router, which runs on linux and has many other 3rd party firmwares, and is open-source also. Add a SD card, and use the GPIO's on it to interface to the mower. http://kiel.kool.dk/

Plus then you have wifi built into it, and you could do neat stuff like call the mower in if the weather turns bad... etc..

EDIT: just to get you thinking... http://yasha.okshtein.net/wrt54g/
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