Chumby

Open Source Hardware? WiFi Flash player

http://chumby.wordpress.com/

CEO Steve Tomlin

hardware/kernel guy: Andrew Shane Huang

• http://bunniestudios.com/bunnie/

• http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/

http://www.christine.net/2006/08/announcing_the_.html |announcement http://wifinetnews.com/archives/006950.html

Mar31'2008: closed series-B $12.5M

costing $180 for now?

for Household Wiki?

• to read it?

  • screen is awfully small (roughly same as my Sharp Zaurus) (see FlickR:ChumBy)

  • hmm, can TouchScreen even work like a straight Web Browser?

  • argh, can't even browse HTML, not enough juice

  • I suppose could get some sort of super-simple widget similar to RSS entry channel/reader

• to run it!

  • can build LightTPD Web Server on it

    • it already has a built-in Web Server that you can add CGI scripts to

  • can build Python on it. (Wouldn't even need prior method of installing LightTPD, could just use Python's own server, or maybe WSGI?

received Nov07

initial impressions

• wow that's a tiny screen. And the default angle isn't facing-up enough to be nice to look at if you're standing up. It seems designed more to look over at when you're sitting at your desk.

• jeez this seems like a stupid TV! You can't even "click through" (on any of the channels I have loaded) to get more detail (e.g. from weather forecast summary to more detail on just today, or from 1 Twitter entry to last-n from same person, etc.)

• this seems almost like a bad compromise between a MiniITX Home Server and something from Ambient Devices...