Supply Components is again with one other system launching below the Popcorn Pc model, with a view to placing a fully-functional if bare-bones Linux PC proper in your pocket — within the type of the compact Popcorn Pc PopStick.
„PopStick is a USB laptop, working the newest Linux kernel,“ Supply Components explains of its newest {hardware} design. „Upon plugging PopStick into a number, it will possibly seem as any sort of USB system that you simply want. Need it to indicate up as a scriptable USB keyboard and mouse? No drawback. Would you wish to SSH into it, or run a webserver on it? PopStick can seem as a USB Ethernet system. Have one thing utterly customized in thoughts? The chances are limitless.“
The Popcorn Pc model is again with a brand new design, this time choosing a pocket-friendly embedded Linux. (📷: Popcorn Pc)
The system, designed in a gumstick type issue with a USB Kind-A connector at one finish and dropped at our consideration by CNX Software program, is constructed round Allwinner’s F1C200s system-on-chip, giving it a considerably dated ARMv5TE-based ARM926EJ-S processor working at 533MHz and 64MB of DDR1 reminiscence. There’s 128MB of SPI NAND flash storage, onto which Supply Components has pre-loaded a customized Linux distribution primarily based on the newest kernel model, with microSD enlargement. There’s additionally a micro-USB connector offering entry to a UART bus internet hosting a serial console.
The Popcorn Pc model launched 4 years in the past as a non secular successor to the sadly-shuttered Subsequent Factor Co. and its common low-cost C.H.I.P. single-board laptop and Pocket C.H.I.P. handheld provider. The corporate pledged to launch a pin-compatible C.H.I.P. successor, dubbed the Authentic Popcorn, and an upgraded model referred to as the Tremendous Popcorn — however failed to succeed in its crowdfunding objective. The corporate bounced back with a follow-up design, the Pocket P.C., primarily based round extra highly effective {hardware} — and would later make the design available under an open-source license, albeit within the face of continued manufacturing delays.
The brand new system follows the troubled growth of the Pocket P.C., pictured. (📷: Popcorn Pc)
The PopStick is a significantly extra modest system, and an order of magnitude cheaper than the Pocket P.C. because of this: Supply Components is taking pre-orders on the Popcorn Computer website at $29 with out microSD card, or $37.99 bundled with a 32GB card. Extra info is on the market on the dedicated product site.
