[Noisebridge-discuss] a little bit of info on the excel program, and an idea to move forward

[Andy Isaacson]

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 03:39:46PM -0700, Michael Shiloh wrote:
> the big question is how big a footprint is the IDE, being Java and all. 
> A question: What is the minimum amount of RAM and CPU horsepower to run 
> the Arduino IDE?

The whole Arduino package is around 30 MB, including the IDE and
everything.  I doubt it'd be OK to run on a 128MB machine, but 512MB
will be fine.  (Unfortunately Ubuntu has abandoned the low-end, you
can't even run the 8.10 installer in 128MB.)  I bet you can do a
bootable Ubuntu+Arduino thumb drive in 512MB.

> Netbooks are also somewhat fragile, so the price would have to consider 

My Eee 900 is a lot *less* fragile than my Thinkpad X40 or any Dell I've
ever touched.  I think nothing of throwing it in my shoulder bag without
a sleeve.  The smaller monitor means less leverage on the hinge.

Also, Arduino should run OK on OLPC's XO-1.  Now *there*'s an intriguing
idea...

-andy