Ideas for uses for tiny industrial PC?

[sfryman]

My brother-in-law got me a free ebox-3300 from a conference:

http://www.compactpc.com.tw/ebox-3300.htm

It's tiny and uses very little power, has a 1GHz processor with 256MB of RAM & totally fanless (silent). Has several USB ports, CF port and a micro-SD slot (no HD). I put in a 4GB CF card and managed to install linux on it. Now...what to do with it?

I could install it on the back of my main PC's monitor or even the upstairs TV.
I could hook up an external USB drive and turn it into a NAS, but it only has 10/100Mbps LAN
We have only 1 printer in the house and I could just set it up as a printserver, but that seems like kind of a waste.

HTPC maybe? I could probably install XBMC and play movies & music from an external USB drive but it doesn't have a TV tuner and seems a bit limited for this purpose.

Any other ideas?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Wow that is awesome. I wish these were more readily available and easy to get with various configs. If it had two nics it would make a very nice firewall box.

It does have USB though which opens up various possibilities. Could maybe act as a security camera box if you can manage to find a web cam that supports linux.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Buy a small touch screen monitor and turn it into a kitchen or car PC. Find some kind of chassis that will fold up and allow you to hide it easily.

 

[her209]

Proxy server?

 

[aceO07]

File server, web server, bittorrent server, printer server, kitchen computer for recipes or entertainment while cooking? There's lots of options.

 

[Zap]

Wow, looks pretty sweet! All kinds of possibilities, but the question is whether you need those things.

 

[wwswimming]

Any other ideas?

remote video surveillance. bundle it with a small solar panel and set it up to watch my garden plot. someone stole the wheat but nothing else. it was only about a square meter of wheat, and i can not figure out why someone would steal such a small amount of wheat.

 

[Aarondeep]

Does yours have an optional 2nd ethernet port? You could make a nice ipcop router, FreeNAS, or clarkconnect.

The lack of sound suxx,

 

[vshah]

Does yours have an optional 2nd ethernet port? You could make a nice ipcop router, FreeNAS, or clarkconnect.

The lack of sound suxx,

eh? audio is listed in the specs...

 

[Soulkeeper]

are those things made with the 65nm process ?
what's the price ?

"The globe worming is the most concern issue recent years." --quote from the specs pdf. Interesting words ...

they seem to not say much about it ...