[HH] $30 ARM Cortex-M3 SBC

[Tom Metro]

Steve Gibson has been talking about his "Portable Sound Blaster" (a
device that sends high frequency, high decibel sound waves in a focused
beam):
https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1mfc5ZcuqU03ll2qyHl8URd1MvAYzr5swq2_SoCYmpIc

on his "Security Now" podcast and mentioned the microcontroller he plans
to use:
http://www.lpctools.com/lpc1768.lpcxpresso.aspx

It's a $30 "stick"-style single board computer with a 120 MHz ARM
Cortex-M3 core: 512 KB Flash, 64 KB RAM, 100 Mbps Ethernet, multiple USB
ports, serial, timers, watchdog, PWM, ADC/DAC, runs FreeRTOS, and has
free development tools (Eclipse plugin, etc.).

Sounds like a lot for $30.

I wonder what sort of software-based video compression it could pull
off? (Supposedly it has some DSP capability too.) Pair this up with a
USB camera to make a highly stable IP camera with firmware focused on
streaming video, instead of all the other silly things consumer-grade IP
cameras try and do.

 -Tom