On 13-Oct-07, at 10:18 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
I checked chumby out when you mentioned it - I had never heard of it. Yeah, it seems to be a cool little thing and I could see something like displaying weather stats from Dan's weather gizmo. It could be nice to show other local home stats (cameras, security stats, status of the lights, electrical usage, etc.) instead of using a more expensive computer.
I was thinking of a printer server with ability to let you cancel/ suspend/change/etc jobs while at the printer instead of having to go back to the main machine. Or the music aspect of an Apple Airport Express - wifi the sound to chumby, hook in usb speakers.
Or even eviscerate one, wire up a larger screen (800*600 max, perhaps a http://store.earthlcd.com/EDMGRB8KJF?sc=7&category=256 or similar ) hookup a big li-poly battery and make an Active Book :-)
You could have several around the house. (kinda like us old people who buy the cheap drug store reading glasses and sprinkle them around the house for times when we need them.)
tim -- tim Rowledge; tim@rowledge.org; http://www.rowledge.org/tim Objects are closer than they appear.