The Chumby hardware is open source and they sell the screenless "hacker" board here:<div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10106">http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10106</a></div><div><br></div>
<div>You don't have to run their software...it's just a Freescale ARM proc which is similar in power to the plug computer. They know how to do supply chain management (they make a version for Best Buy as well). Chumby would be a GREAT partner for this project. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Arguments that it's not robust are simply untrue. The brick because of not phoning home is a design requirement for their business model.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 6:52 PM, James Vasile <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:james@hackervisions.org">james@hackervisions.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I have a Chumby. It has a screen, which this box certainly does not<br>
need and which accounts for a lot of its cost. That's why it's<br>
underspecced for the money.<br>
<br>
Its admin model is great if all you care about is end user convenience,<br>
but it's not very robust. The thing becomes a brick if it can't call<br>
home. We should implement remote admin with little end-user<br>
intervention. We should do that, though, without reliance on a central,<br>
attackable administrator.<br>
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