 This video is long overdue probably about three months ago. I asked you guys about a computer That was about this big and ran about $30 and I gave you some other specs on it and I'm meant to come back and do a follow-up video a lot of you commented some of you were right and let me ask you this Do you think this is a Linux computer? Well, it's not this is just an SD card But would you believe that there are SD cards that run Linux? It's true I learned this at the conference the Foscon conference up in Orlando back in November And it was one of the best talks I saw there They're talking about you may have seen SD cards you could put in cameras and other devices and turn them into Wi-Fi Either Wi-Fi access points or allow them to connect to an access points You can retrieve your photos or send your photos from the camera to someplace else Well, the truth is those SD cards actually have a processor It was either a 200 or 300 megahertz processor and I think they said 32 gigs of RAM and and a flash chip on there for the operating system and then the rest was the flash drive which was 816 or 32 gigs in size and people found out that they were running Linux actually running Linux Like again, I can't remember if it was two or 300 megahertz, but equivalent to like my computer that I had in 1995 my desktop and 32 megs of RAM on a SD card, you know, and it runs on the 3 volts 3.3 volts of electricity The USB port puts out. So how do you access this? So basically it's Linux on an ARM processor Running a web server and that's how you can access your files off of this Can you do anything more with it? The answer is yes They have found different ways, but the easiest way was certain brands of cards You could actually put a text file on the the memory of the card as if you were to put a file on any SD card And lame name it something and I have to again I don't have this information from me. I'm trying to remember stuff from three four months ago I think you call it like auto run You know or auto run config or something like that and you can add a line of code in there And it basically runs it kind of like a shell script when the computer is powered up And at that point you can use that to start up a Telnet client and you can log in as root and at that point you have Yourself an arm Linux machine With a copy of busybox on it so you can do pretty much anything and And it's got a Wi-Fi chip built in and plenty of storage So the reason it took me so long to do a video on this was because Even though I don't need one of these and I don't know how useful it would be to me because there's no other inputs other than The the network traffic so you could use it as a file server You could use this as a file server up to 32 gigs if you got one that size But there's no keyboard input or mouse input you can tell that and you could obviously throw drop-bear on there And in fact since you have you up to 32 gigs you could theoretically Load you know Debian or Ubuntu or some sort of full desktop distro on there and have all the tools on it so Something that would have been fun, and I was hoping to get it for Christmas I put on my Amazon wishlist I did not get it and I kind of forgot about it And that's why I never did a follow-up video because I was hoping to do a follow-up video of actually using one But yeah, I mean they range in price I think from 30 to 60 dollars last I checked depending on what size card you get and it was funny While the guy was there giving the presentation. I'm thinking okay, so I could throw Debian on there on the larger flash RAM on it on the SD storage and And I can cheer it to Debian and I was even thinking I could even get like X ford going and run something out And he mentioned someone that he was talking to online who did just that they installed I think Ubuntu arm on it SSH din did SSH forwarding to their desktop Installed Firefox started Firefox and then complained about how slow it was Which is funny because it's exactly the sort of thing I was thinking about doing just for fun But if you need a quick and simple file storage network your own cloud, you know There are cheaper options you can get yourself a pogo plug or something like that But for something to you just be neat to have and of course you can start any services on here Telnet client FTP server SSH client it already has a web server running on it so you can run web sites off it theoretically Obviously, it's not the best option for doing all those things But it's just amazing that you could have a computer this size That is basically the equivalent of the computer I bought when I was 15 it was first computer I bought with my own money, which is a big desktop computer that cost me over $2,000 and yeah, it doesn't have a video card didn't it doesn't have a DVD drive which my computer did back then And I want to say I paid extra and got 64 megabytes around where this is only 32 But 32 was pretty standard back then But it's fairly equivalent to something that size. It's how much we've far. We've come in in 20 years Which is kind of a long time, but but not at the same time I think we went from something it was $2,000 that was this big to something this small that you can get for under 50 bucks And probably I probably about the same so I think I think my hard drive might have only been 20 gigs at the time So actually more storage on one of these and Wi-Fi built-in which I did not have in that computer back then And and I guess when you buy these cards, they come with a little SD card Reader and it's important to use the SD card reader that came with it if you're going to do this because otherwise It's mounting the drive in two different ways blah blah blah I'll try to Remember the guy's information if I can and maybe put it in the description of the video if I can remember On how to do some of the stuff again I wish I had one to actually do a demonstration Some of you guessed that this is what I was talking about Some of you were way off because you were talking about Raspberry Pi's and other things that were much bigger or things that much much more expensive But probably much more useful again great idea I'm sure some smart people could think of some fun things to do like again by default. It's a an Access point so theoretically you could have something this size Show up as an access point and when people connect to it have a captive part portal that they go to That looks like a login page for something else and they could steal credentials all in something this big I mean, that's a malicious thing you could do with it But the thought that you can do something with this like that. It's just amazing. So anyway Yeah, so I just thought I'd talk about that because a few people have commented that I never did a follow-up video But the answer was it was an SD Wi-Fi card that come in different brands I think the brand the guy was using at the at the presentation was a it was a trend send and And that particular brand if that's what it was was one of the ones and again I'll try to put links in the description To the website that explains all about these types of cards or the real types of cards So anyway, that's what I was talking about and again just amazing it amazes me blew my mind You know anyway, thanks for watching. Enjoy this video thinking about becoming a supporter or at patreon.com That's patreon.com forward slash metal x1000 also check out my website films by Chris comm that's Chris of the K There should be a link in the description and if you like this short a like subscribe share and comment below Thank you for watching and have a great day