I was recently offered a MeshCube at a reasonably price. And all I can say is: “Uhh, Shiny!” (Well, it isn’t actually shiny, but it has that effect on me). Some specs:

• Small: 7×5x7cm
• Uses very little power: ca. 4-6W
• 100Mbps Ethernet
• USB 1.1
• 400MHz MIPS cpu
• 32MB Flash
• 64MB RAM
• It runs Linux
• Two mini-pci expansion ports

My plan is to expand it with a wireless card and a firewire or usb2.0 card. Then I have a wireless router / access point / network storage. I think it could work really well!

One drawback with these MescCubes is that the manufacturer (4G Systeme) has abandoned them. There is no support nor will they work on a new version of the Linux distro they run, called Nylon. But the drivers and everything is open source and both of my colleagues, Mikkel and Niels Christian, find these cubes very interesting. It will be fun to see what we can make them do . Perhaps playing with OpenWRT is a possibilty?

Also, we may have some additional cubes available! It seems that Niels Christian knows the people behind the Meshcube and is able to get hold of a few more cubes, which we could offer to friends at reasonable prices!