Intel’s D201GLY2 mini-ITX motherboard is not a piece of hardware that most American consumers will immediately give a hoot about. It’s soldered on fanless 1.2Ghz CPU is not exactly blazing fast by today’s standards, and the board has limited peripherals and expansion connectors, making it a poor choice for gaming. It is, however, cheap, small, and runs on very little power. Additionally, the D201GLY2 adds SATA over the original D201GLY. SPCR has done a typically thorough review. Combine this board with a picoPSU and I can imagine all sorts of cool stuff you could do with this board… home servers, firewalls, kid’s first computer, etc.

ARM powered gadgets are everywhere. One recently making a big splash is the Hammer by TinCan Tools. $160 buys you a 40-pin DIP sporting a 200Mhz ARM 920T processor plus 16MB of flash and 32MB of SDRAM. Pretty sweet, no doubt. But compare that to another bizarrely packaged creation, the Chumby, which packs a 350Mhz ARM, 64MB flash, 64MB RAM, plus a 320×240 touchscreen LCD, wifi, 2 USB 2.0 ports… for $180! Damn! Don’t get me wrong, I fully realize that the Hammer and the Chumby are designed with entirely different purposes in mind, but ultimately, which would you spend your hard earned greenbacks on?

A gent by the name of Sylvain Bissonnette has crafted quite a large amount of really interesting projects. Perhaps the most striking he has come up with is a lighting system that uses monster 3 watt RGB LEDs to drench a room of his choosing with luscious mood lighting. The only downside is that linking to the project page redirects you to the front page. The link for the RGB Mood Lighting is in the top right corner of the screen. C’mon Sylvain, how you gonna play me like that!?

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