Something like a thermostat or a smart fridge – have you seen any? If so, please share with a video or two.
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On a hard drive. No, not a motherboard connected to a hard drive, a hard drive by itself. Sprite is brilliant.
There is actually a way to run Debian on Lego Mindstorms toy robot kit using ev3dev
Tho I never owned one of these kit, it still pretty cool looking
Read an article some years back about someone installing Linux on a hard drive.
Not on a computer with a hard drive. On the embedded ARM core inside the hard drive. One of them anyways, I think this particular hard drive had three CPUs inside it actually.
I had an old iPod nano that was hacked with a light Linux distro. Could even run doom on it… It ran, but wasn’t practical to play it.
Don’t most thermostats and smart fridges run Linux?
Syringe drivers exist that are on-line devices. I half expect the first IoT murder to be by someone hacking a syringe driver filled with something vital (say insulin) that’s plugged into the victim’s IV.
I don’t know if such devices are capable of being jailbroken and installed with Linux, but why not?
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Good work, 47. Now get to an exit.
At the level of microcontrollers there is an entire range with the necessary radio HW and enough computing power and memory to have WiFi and a TCP stack but not enough to fit Linux (stuff like the esp8266, which has only 80KB user data memory).
Those things essentially run just the one application on top of some manufacturer provider libraries (no OS, though if you really want to there’s an RT OS) and which can be something that gets commands via the network and activates some hardware via GPIO ports.
For example, smart LED lamps that can be controlled from a smartphone are made with this kind of HW.
Mind you, recently somebody managed to get Linux to run of a top range model of the most recent of these things (an ESP32-S3).
So I wouldn’t presume that a syringe driver can be made to run Linux, given that it’s functionality is simple enough to be implemented by a simple program that can fit in that kind of microcontroller.
It’s not entirelly Linux, but there’s a port of FUZIX for the Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller
Does a MicroVAX count?
It was the late 90s. We booted it on whatever we could.
Didn’t someone get a cuecat working? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it.
