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Incidentally, the guy creating this is Bunnie Huang -- the guy who designed the Chumby, was famous for Xbox hardware hacking, and did an awesome (open-hardware) MITM attack on HDCP at CCC [1,2].

[1] http://events.ccc.de/congress/2011/Fahrplan/events/4686.en.h...

[2] video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37SBMyGoCAU

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Sean "xobs" Cross is collaborating on this as well. He's more low-key than Bunnie when it comes to publicity but still worth following if you're into the "Internet of Things" (I kind of hate this phrase, but it gets the idea across effectively enough).

Sean was also at chumby industries, by far the greatest collection of smart people I've ever worked with (sadly, on a product idea that ultimately failed).

The chumby was sort of a precursor to the tablet life most of us live now. It's sad that it failed, but the concept of chumby no doubt influenced a lot of really handy app design.

bunnie's history with open hardware design at Chumby leaves me confident that this will be a really fun system to work with. I've hacked around on various Chumby devices (I've got an Infocast 8" running Debian, for instance), and they've consistently been fun, reasonable systems to work with.

See an interview with Bunnie here: http://andrew.huang.usesthis.com/

Wow. I get the feeling he's kinda into hardware!

That was a great read. Thanks!

I was wondering this - I 've been following this blog but have been lazy at reading up on his background. I found his posts on the manufacturing/electronics culture/subculture around Shenzhen fascinating...

not to mention the regular posts on odd circuit boards....

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