I never really get rid of many of my tech gadgets, which is why I still have my old iBook in a draw somewhere, a Pokemon Mini in a box in the loft as well as a couple of Cybikos hanging around. This of course means I’ve still got my Chumby One that following tradition has been stuck in a drawer since I moved to Newcastle about 3 years ago. »
A number of years ago I purchased a Chumby One, basically a fancy alarm clock running linux. I’ve played with a few different languages for it but haven’t really done much with it lately. I’ve also been using a bit of Go recently and thought it might be fun to get Go running on the Chumby One, this has actually proven to be remarkably easy thanks to Go already coming with a number of compilers for different architectures. »
I've been digging through some of my older projects (read abandoned) and I came across a small lua library I had started writing to interface with the frame buffer on the Chumby, source available here If I remember correctly the library works and ... »
I've been planning on turning the Chumby into a websever using lighttpd, thought it'd be kind of cool to make it do something useful rather than just standing there and showing me the time or recent facebook updates. My first idea was to just put ... »
Last year sometime I purchased a chumby one, with the main goal to develop some funky widgets and also I needed a new alarm clock. The widgets that are on the chumby site are all developed in flash, and I never quite got round to paying the massiv... »