[dorkbotdc-blabber] Anyone got a chumby? Do you like it?

[Andrew Q Righter]

I have a Chumby!

I think they're really neat, but they do have some disadvantages. I started
building some applications for it and it seems that at the time of my
developing they only allowed Flash Lite (I think 2.1?) as the programming
language - to me this was really limited, I had to find very unique ways to
get things done (like running cron jobs on a server to pull down information
from some XML files sitting on the web elsewhere) - there are a lot of
issues with permissions with what you can/can't access when you upload your
file to Chumby to run.

On a non-developer side:

I think it's amazing! It's so much fun to play with and it's like an alarm
clock/radio/internet device/super awesome cool gadget all-in-one. I haven't
picked it up in a couple weeks because of moving but it used to sit by my
side (best place I found is on your computer desk) and play Chumball and my
girlfriend would always beat the Daily Sudoku. There are a TON of freely
available written widgets for the device from the community and the wiki is
great for any question you would want to know.

I'm a fan of it, I think the price tag is a TAD high (@200) but you'll have
a TON of fun, and if you're a hacker/developer you should be able to find a
lot of good uses for this in future projects. I'm still waiting to see if
anyone does a battery modification, that would be nice. (Hooking up a
gel-cell or something similar and maybe running a "stumbler" type
application and throw it in a company's office for a work day to see what it
picks up, hehe.)

Hope this helps!

On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 7:54 AM, M@ <mattbillings at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone on the list have a Chumby? Do you like it? Do you think
> it's worth the $200 price tag?
> http://store.chumby.com/index.php
>
> I'm thinking of asking for on for my birthday.
>
> M@
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