Gumstix is an American
multinational corporation headquartered in
Redwood City, California. It develops and manufactures small system boards comparable in size to a
stick of gum.[2] In 2003, when it was first fully functional, it used
ARM architecturesystem on a chip (SoC) and an operating system based on
Linux 2.6 kernel.[3][4] It has an online tool called Geppetto that allows users to design their own boards. In August 2013 it started a crowd-funding service to allow a group of users that want to get a custom design manufactured to share the setup costs.[4]