I found Chumby on LinuxDevices early this evening and just couldn't get it out of my head. The Chumby is an alarm clock sized data display device in a funny looking casing. The Chumby basically is a small ARM-based computer equipped with a QVGA display and a two USB ports; the software is Linux. From what I understand from the Chumby website the device is designed to display/run Flash applets (widgets).
The point of this device really seems to have some kind of pimped alarm clock - which I think is quite cool! It is kind of strange to find Chumby right now since I was just planning to build something similar. I want to have something to stick to the wall to just display some text an images. My plan was to use an old Palm and a F*nera access point but maybe I just wait for the Chumby to become available also I kind of hate Flash.
Anyway I kind of like the idea of Chumby, especially the part of being totally hackable.
mazzoo wrote
see http://www.bunniestudios.com/wordpress/?p=115 and the following posts. bunnie is one of the HW developers of the chumby ... in earlier days he helped reversing/freeing the Xbox m
Collin wrote
very interesting... Over the weekend I've played with the virtual Chumby and their website. I found that the flash applets run quite nice on my Nokia 770 and my N800 (without the virtual chumby). It is fun but nothing great. No real killer application sofar. Also I found their channel concept very annoying, maybe things will get better once the device is out and people build some nicer software.
mazzoo wrote
what is the implementaion/codebase of these flashplayers? gnash? A proprietary Adobe flash player port? Any URLs for chumby and/or archos flash players? m
Collin wrote
I guess they (www.chumby.com) just use the Adobe Flash player SDK for embedded devices. I've tryed the chumby flash applets with gnash to see if gnash works and it does. But the quality is not as good as you need it in order to sell it. So I guess they use Adobe Flash (should be Flash 7).
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