LinkIt Smart 7688 Duo (SD card slot on back) I was concerned that kiwix-serve would need more than 128 MB of memory to run it, so it might not even work if I ported it. Is quite a large piece of code, and the build system is super complicated and only binaries for ARM and x86 are pre-built. Size of my thumb, and had nothing extra that would make it larger than necessary. ![]() Media Tek MT7688 MIPS processor at 580 MHz with 128 MB memory, a Micro SD slot, and runs OpenWRT Linux. At the time I started this project, the Raspberry Pi Zero W did not exist. The Raspberry Pi Zero is smaller and cheaper, but doesn't include WiFi,Īnd I didn't want extra adaptors plugged in via USB. Large, costs around $50, and can consume lots of power. A Raspberry Pi 3 would do it, but it is physically I needed a device which could run off a battery, and be also cheap and very small. Kiwix-serve, which takes a ZIM file and creates a web server. The Kiwix project actually supports something called So I thought perhaps a better solution would be to build a tiny web server that can run off a battery, and then I couldīrowse it using a phone, laptop, or E-paper device like a Kindle. ZIM file, but today's phones just don't have the storage space. There are nice apps such as Kiwix for Android (open source) that can browse a local Most phones don't have enough space to store either of these files, and don't contain a slot for an SD card. The text-only version is 19 Gb, which is much larger than the 4 Gb image I used overġ0 years ago. Pictures is 59 Gb, and growing every day. Nowadays, the full Wikipedia archive from Kiwix including ![]() this was basically the first actual implementation of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. ![]() I had access to the entire world's information and it was stored locally Palm Tungsten T3, and then browse Wikipedia whileįlying on a plane far away from any Internet access. These 4 Gb SD cards were quite expensive at the time,īut I thought it was amazing that I could download the entire Wikipedia, put it into my Of the entire text of Wikipedia that fit onto a 4 Gb SD card. Around 2005, you could get archive files containing a full copy Has managed to capture so much of the world's information. I have always been amazed by the Wikipedia project, and how it Wayne Piekarski | Cheap and low power web server with local Wikipedia wayne piekarskiĬheap and low power web server with local Wikipediaīuilding a super low power web server and WiFi access point, with a full 50 Gb copy of wikipedia, for when you have no Internet access.
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