Microtouch: 8-bit Open Source Media Device

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Posted by Unknown Lamer on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @04:20PM from the bits-are-overrated dept.

First time accepted submitter misterbarnacles writes "The Microtouch is a mobile media device that aims to become an open-source alternative to the iPod Touch." Deeper investigation reveals that the Microtouch is a nifty little device. Powered by an 8-bit microcontroller with only 2.5K of RAM there is an example ebook reader application. A primitive application framework (for some definition of the phrase) is available as Free Software, and for the hardware hackers the EagleCAD PCB files are published under a CC attribution-share-alike license.

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Open-source alternative to the iPod Touch ? (Score:5, Insightful)

by perpenso ( 1613749 ) writes: on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @04:43PM (#37754500)

open-source alternative to the iPod Touch
... 8-bit microcontroller with only 2.5K of RAM ...
As someone who has programmed microcontrollers and 8-bit CPUs back in the day I think this is a pretty cool device.

But iPod touch alternative? Seriously?

8-bit microcontroller vs 32-bit embedded processor with integrated FPU
2.5K RAM vs 512M RAM
28K FLASH vs 8G FLASH

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