The coolest thing about OpenWRT is that you end up with a functional computer for $100. Of course it's not a very fast one with huge amounts of storage or anything, but it's perfect for tinkering with.
Running Linux, it's provides you with a full-featured OS, about 2MB of storage, 16MB of RAM, wireless networking, several network interfaces (you can in fact effectively use each of the 6 network ports as a seperate interface) and about 200 BogoMips of blistering performance.
People have customized these routers in a million different ways. From serial ports to SD cards to LCD screens, the possibilties are endless....
Posted by Boone at September 23, 2005 10:47 PM