The Pepper Pad is a Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

-based mobile computer with Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 capability and doubles as a handheld game console

Handheld game console

A handheld game console is a lightweight, portable electronic device with a built-in screen, game controls and speakers. Handheld game consoles are run on machines of small size allowing people to carry them and play them at any time or place...

. It also serves as a portable multimedia device. The device uses Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 and Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

 technologies for Internet connection.

The Pepper Pad 3 has a split QWERTY

QWERTY

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout. The name comes from the first six letters appearing in the topleft letter row of the keyboard, read left to right: Q-W-E-R-T-Y. The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to Remington in the...

 button keyboard, built-in microphone

Microphone

A microphone is an acoustic-to-electric transducer or sensor that converts sound into an electrical signal. In 1877, Emile Berliner invented the first microphone used as a telephone voice transmitter...

, video camera, composite video

Composite video

Composite video is the format of an analog television signal before it is combined with a sound signal and modulated onto an RF carrier. In contrast to component video it contains all required video information, including colors in a single line-level signal...

 output, and stereo speakers, Infra-Red receiver and transmitter, 800x480 7 inch LCD touchscreen (with stylus), SD/MMC Flash memory slot, 20 or 30 GB hard disk, 256MB RAM

Ram

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, 256KB ROM

Read-only memory

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, AMD CPU, and both Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...

 (b/g) and Bluetooth

Bluetooth

Bluetooth is a proprietary open wireless technology standard for exchanging data over short distances from fixed and mobile devices, creating personal area networks with high levels of security...

 2.0. The built-in software is a variant of Linux (2.6 kernel) with an extensive variety of Open Source software.

Support

Pepper Computer, Inc. has ceased operations and is no longer providing support or sales for Pepper Pad web computers or Pepper Linux.

Software ported to the Pepper Pad

• FCE Ultra
  FCE Ultra
  FCEUX is an open source Nintendo Entertainment System and Family Computer Disk System emulator. It is a merger of various forks of FCE Ultra.-Multiplayer support:...
  
   (NES
  Nes
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   emulator)
• Adobe Systems
  Adobe Systems
  Adobe Systems Incorporated is an American computer software company founded in 1982 and headquartered in San Jose, California, United States...
  
  /Macromedia
  Macromedia
  Macromedia was an American graphics and web development software company headquartered in San Francisco, California that produced such products as Flash and Dreamweaver. Its rival, Adobe Systems, acquired Macromedia on December 3, 2005 and controls the line of Macromedia...
  
   Flash 7
• Java
  Java (programming language)
  Java is a programming language originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems and released in 1995 as a core component of Sun Microsystems' Java platform. The language derives much of its syntax from C and C++ but has a simpler object model and fewer low-level facilities...
  
  
• X11
• GTK+
  GTK+
  GTK+ is a cross-platform widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU LGPL, allowing both free and proprietary software to use it. It is one of the most popular toolkits for the X Window System, along with Qt.The name GTK+ originates from GTK;...
  
  
• Mozilla Firefox
• Real Player
• Helix
  Helix (project)
  Helix DNA is a project to produce software that can play audio and video media in various formats, aid in producing such media, and serve them over a network. It is intended as a largely free and open source digital media framework that runs on numerous operating systems and processors and was...
  
  
• Squeak
  Squeak
  The Squeak programming language is a Smalltalk implementation. It is object-oriented, class-based and reflective.It was derived directly from Smalltalk-80 by a group at Apple Computer that included some of the original Smalltalk-80 developers...
  
  

Hardware

• Mass: 2.1 pounds (985g)
• Size: 29 cm x 14.9 cm x 2.3 cm (11.4" x 5.9" x 0.9")

Mainboard

• AMD Geode CPU, 533MHz clock speed, x86 instruction set with MMX and 3DNow extensions, integrated north bridge, graphics controller and PCI bridge
• AMD CS5536 Companion device (south bridge), USB 2.0 / IDE / IR / SMBus / APM interface
• Wolfson WM9713 AC97 Audio / Touchscreen interface
• 256MB DDR SDRAM (DDR-333 SO-DIMM)
• 256KB BIOS ROM
• Chrontel CH7013B NTSC/PAL TV signal encoder
• IrDA and TvIR emitters/receivers

Subsystems

• Hitachi TravelStar 20GB 1.8" IDE disk drive
• Atheros AR2413A-based mini-PCI 802.11b/g WiFi interface, with externally-attached antenna (external to the card, internal to the Pepper)
• Bluetooth 2.0
• AU Optronics A070VW01 7.0" 800x480 TFT LCD
• Integrated 62-key clicky keyboard, including 4-way cursor array and scroll wheel
• 3800mAh Lithium-Ion Battery
• Stereo Speakers
• Microphone
• 640x480 digital camera, fixed focus

External Ports

• USB 2.0 host port
• USB 2.0 device port
• 1/8" Stereo headphone out
• 1/8" Composite video out
• 1/8" Microphone In

Internal Ports

• miniPCI (occupied by WiFi interface)
• JTAG
  JTAG
  Joint Test Action Group is the common name for what was later standardized as the IEEE 1149.1 Standard Test Access Port and Boundary-Scan Architecture. It was initially devised for testing printed circuit boards using boundary scan and is still widely used for this application.Today JTAG is also...
  
   test-access port.
• Serial port
  Serial port
  In computing, a serial port is a serial communication physical interface through which information transfers in or out one bit at a time...
  
  with console

External links

• Pepper Computer, Inc.
• DOWN 2011-02-24 Hanbit America, hardware manufacturer website
  • Archive of Hanbit America Web archive of hardware manufacturer website
• Pepper Pad Community Forums, official discussion forums
• DOWN 2011-02-24 Pepper Wiki, Pepper Pad information repository
  • Web archive of wiki Archive
• Pepper Linux 4.0 Application Launching Preview (Video)