This article by LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum describes a tiny webserver device, built on a 1.1″ x 0.9″ PC board, that only requires the addition of +5V DC power and an Ethernet connector to function as a standalone webserver. It's made by NetMedia, which was founded by Artisoft founder Jack Schoof (remember LANtastic?), and will be sold in the $25-$35 range in small quantities. No, it doesn't run embedded Linux — “yet”! Its CPU is a Philips P89C51RD2 (8051 variant), which contains 64KB internal Flash and 1KB internal SRAM, one serial port, and some digital I/O. The most interesting part about it is the innovative technique used to make it easy to program with externally supplied variable parameters which get blended into its internal HTML pages.

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