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/

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 [Touch Screen] 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 Light T P D 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 Light T P D, 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...

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