The Smallest Computer in the World

The world’s smallest computer is the picotux 100, which according to Wikipedia measures only 35mm x 19mm x 19mm and basically looks like an ethernet cord extender except for the fact that the other side has a serial port on it. This is all cool and everything, but it becomes more impressive when you realize that it runs uClinux (a linux distro for micro-computers) that can also run on iPods, iPhones, and other mobile architectures/devices that have non-standard memory controllers, etc. You can learn more about it at http://www.picotux.com/ from which the image below is from, but here’s the run-down on it:

-55MHz ARM 32-bit processor
-2MB Flash Memory
-8MB SDRAM
-10/100 Lan (FD / AutoSensing)
-2 Indicator LED’s, one programmable
-OS: uClinux 2.4.27 Big Endian (native)
Will work with BusyBox (as a shell), and others as well.
-Supports CRAMFS, JFFS2, NFS
-I think I read somewhere that there’s a POE mod for this thing, well… there’s a lot of mods for it.

Doing a Google Image Search reveals a lot of mods and proof-of-concept’s that companies and individuals have done. Some are rather interesting, so that’s worth taking a look at as well. Oh yeah, and one last thing – it will run a webserver, but wouldn’t make much of a router. I may buy one of these to make into some sort of a spy device or something; admittedly I can’t find any good use for it at the moment, but it sure is cool!