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Title: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: Smalleyster on July 19, 2011, 10:31:15 PM Could this puppy have a bootable linux SD card in the near future?
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/gadgetreviews/dual-boot-your-nook-color-with-android-using-a-micro-sd-card-35/26275?tag=nl.e539 Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: deslok on July 19, 2011, 11:13:00 PM Considering that android is linux based...it already does! And there are many bitcoin apps piping up on android market each day!
*edit for typographical error* Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: cicada on July 20, 2011, 04:34:26 PM I worked quite a bit porting Froyo (Android 2.2) to the Nook Color in it's early days (I'm also cicada on the XDA forums), and helped a bit getting Cyanogenmod running on it. It's an amazing little tablet.
Someone was working on a full Ubuntu port, but there are serious hurdles there, so I don't expect to see a 'real linux' on it anytime soon. NC has a pretty powerful DSP chip, which is really a glorified FPGA, what'd be really cool is if someone could write an android app that takes advantage of this, might get 20-30mhash or so from it ;) Unfortunately programming for the DSP chip requires proprietary toolkits from TI, and doesn't look like a walk in the park. Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: Smalleyster on July 20, 2011, 04:48:51 PM NC has a pretty powerful DSP chip, which is really a glorified FPGA, what'd be really cool is if someone could write an android app that takes advantage of this, might get 20-30mhash or so from it ;) Wow, I was just thinking it would make a cool wallet. Never dreamed it might have basic mining demo potential. Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: cicada on July 20, 2011, 05:02:03 PM Wow, I was just thinking it would make a cool wallet. Never dreamed it might have basic mining demo potential. It's probably a pipe dream unless I suddenly win the lotto and can get back to hobby projects. ;) | | \ / Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: deslok on July 20, 2011, 11:07:31 PM NC has a pretty powerful DSP chip, which is really a glorified FPGA, what'd be really cool is if someone could write an android app that takes advantage of this, might get 20-30mhash or so from it ;) Wow, I was just thinking it would make a cool wallet. Never dreamed it might have basic mining demo potential. It's most of the way there for being the cool wallet this http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/ is exactly what you'd need to finish that. however if you just wanted a portable android wallet there is a tablet i've seen in cvs for under 100usd that should do the trick just as well. Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: Smalleyster on July 20, 2011, 11:50:09 PM NC has a pretty powerful DSP chip, which is really a glorified FPGA, what'd be really cool is if someone could write an android app that takes advantage of this, might get 20-30mhash or so from it ;) Wow, I was just thinking it would make a cool wallet. Never dreamed it might have basic mining demo potential. It's most of the way there for being the cool wallet this http://code.google.com/p/bitcoin-wallet/ is exactly what you'd need to finish that. however if you just wanted a portable android wallet there is a tablet i've seen in cvs for under 100usd that should do the trick just as well. Wow, learn something new everyday. Found some reviews on the talbet. Impressive, but it looks like CVS is either sold out or no longer carries it. Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: deslok on July 20, 2011, 11:51:45 PM i think they have some in my local store still (small town i probably have more processing power in my room than the rest of the area) but i have an evo4g i'm thinking of getting a tablet sometime next year when the reasonable priced ones are more not less powerful than my phone!
Title: Re: BitCoin for Nook on the horizon? Post by: deslok on July 21, 2011, 04:14:10 PM just to confirm i was at cvs during my lunch today they still have one sitting on a shelf i know you were looking for something small for linux coin in the goods section even though this isn't quite it if you're interested send me a pm.
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