Re: Interesting possible tiny NetBSD/mips target

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 6:28 AM, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> Zsun Wi-Fi USB Card Reader
>
> Its 13/30/33mm (plus USB plug :) with an Atheros AR9331 WiSoC + 64MB
> RAM / 16MB Flash
> and has serial and ethernet contacts on the board, all for under $10 :)
>
> https://phasenoise.livejournal.com/2018/1500.html

Jun Ebihara sent email to NetBSD-advocacy about a Zsun Wifi card
reader in 2015 stating that the device is WIP.

I bought one to play with. I was hoping to see what the stock
firmware/software could do but it's been pretty unimpressive so far.
If I get time I will look into hacking it to do something useful.

There are some pretty cool devices showing up, mostly ARM though.

MikroTik has some pretty cheap routers (under $30) using MIPS that
could be fun to hack. They support netbooting from the boot loader. I
never tried it though.

Andy