This QWERK board has pretty much everything a hobbiest developer could want.

A place called Charmed Labs has come-up with a very powerfull, fully featured controller board which would be suitable for any number of hobbiest projects from robots to ride vehicles.

The board has a somewhat unusual configuration with a nice ARM CPU, a couple FPGAs, a few high-current drivers, quite a handful of hobby servo outputs, ethernet, USB, and more. Even though the pricetag is $330, this would be a fantastic board to have around to do experimenting and prototyping, although it's certainly not the kind of thing you'll want to embed (waste) in tiny projects.

The QWERK features:

• 200 MHz ARM9 RISC processor with MMU and hardware floating point unit
• 32 Mbytes SDRAM, 8 Mbytes flash memory
• Latest generation Xilinx Spartan 3E FPGA for custom I/O peripherals
• Linux 2.6 installed
• WiFi wireless networking support
• WebCam video input support
• 4 Amp switching power supply, 90% efficient, 7 to 30 Volt input range
• Rugged aluminum enclosure
• 5.1” x 5.8” x 1.3
• 4 closed-loop 2.0 Amp motor controllers (supports both quadrature encoder and back-EMF “sensorless” feedback)
• 16 RC-servo controllers
• 16 programmable digital I/Os
• 8 12-bit analog inputs
• 2 RS-232 ports
• USB 2.0 host ports for connecting standard USB PC peripherals
• 10/100BT Ethernet port
• Built-in audio amp for playing MP3 and WAV files

Thanks to Case on the Coolest-gadgets.com forum for finding this. The potential of this board is amazing -- I've rarely seen this kind of equipment on industrial controllers (which are also I/O heavy) and certainly not at this price.