Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Gumstix Power Consumption

It would seem as per this specs page that the Gumstix utilizes 1.5Watts of power with Wifi inactive and 2.0Watts with Wifi active. That is referring to the XM4-BT board which has built in Bluetooth. I will be changing the part #s in the specs now since our discussion.

As far as the daughter boards with audiostix and the video display boards, they are both 60-pin expansion boards so I'm not sure how we're going to work this out. Perhaps Len can offer some feedback on this. The assortment of expansion boards can be viewed here.

The audiostix does have an LCD interface according to the specs here but it seems that some soldering is required to make this work. I don't know what that means but I would say its safe to exclude the audiostix board if we want a nice display interface.

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