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TrueWhore
Oct 1, 2000

Here's a question you guys might be able to help me with. I am looking to build an extremely low power consumption wireless web/file server. To serve as a solar powered wireless deaddrop. I was thinking some microcontroller with a xbee or so, but I don't really see any solutions there, looks like all it supports is serial. So then I started thinking DD-wrt or openwrt, with a flashdrive as storage.

First, does anyone have any low power embedded systems/projects to point me towards? I am fine with hacking stuff, but I'm not gonna write a web server or tcp/ip stack from scratch :)

Second, backup plan: what would be a good router to work with? Low power, just a standalone ap, serving a simple webpage, and some sort of file upload download, or nfs support, I guess. And suport for a usb thumbdrive for storage. Openwrt would do this for sure, yeah? Power is the bigest consideration, really looking for the lowest power consumption possible, I don't want a strong radio or many mhz.

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