Chumby

The Chumby is a consumer electronics device that was made ​​in April 2012 by Chumby Industries, Inc.. He is an embedded computer with Internet and LAN access via a Wi-Fi connection or a USB LAN adapter. About the network connection, the Chumby relate Flash various software widgets on Adobe.

Offer

Offered was the Chumby as Internet radio alarm clock. In the default configuration, it offers next to the time and an alarm clock and a current weather report, an internet - radio, General news, stock quotes and messages from friends. Due to the free availability of the documentation and the software source code, he can, however, extensively customize to personal needs; many widgets were available for free download.

Due to the fact that the widgets do not such as running even with Android devices on the device but are available via the Web, the Chumby is basically the prime example of a " tethered appliances ", ie by adjusting the supply of service provider, the device is largely worthless. And so it happened also in the case of the Chumby, as the manufacturing company was closed and February 2013, the funding for the services was no longer given. A group of volunteers who had cared for the service since the end of Chumby Industries, since then maintains a trunk service that allows to start the device and continue to use some of the core functions.

Properties

Hardware

The Chumby has the following features:

  • Original Chumby 350 MHz ARM9 -based Freescale i.MX21 controller
  • 64 MB SDRAM
  • 64 MB NAND flash ROM
  • 320 × 240 3.5 inch TFT LCD touch screen with 12 frames / s
  • Stereo 2W speakers, an audio output, integrated microphone
  • Two USB 2.0 ports
  • Integrated WLAN
  • Bending sensor for User Interface Features
  • Accelerometer.
  • Chumby One 454 MHz ARM processor
  • 64 MB DDR SDRAM
  • 2 GB internal microSD card
  • 3.5 " LCD color touch screen
  • 2W mono speaker
  • Integrated wireless LAN adapter (802.11 b / g)
  • FM radio tuner
  • Rechargeable lithium -ion battery (not included); fully charged for about an hour running time
  • 1 USB 2.0 High -speed Port
  • Stereo headphone output
  • Volume control
  • Acceleration sensor
  • ABS plastic housing
  • USB - Ethernet - compatible
  • Dimmable backlight
  • About 11x9x9 cm (W / H / D)

The classic Chumby is supplied exclusively via an AC adapter while the newer Chumby One also has a compartment for a Li -Ion battery of the type NP- 120.

Software

The operating system is the open-source Linux is employed. Together with the embedded version of Adobe Flash Player pre-installed some widgets. The widgets also support the control of the underlying hardware, and thus offer the possibility of, for example, a time-controlled switching on the device or a software control via the accelerometer and flex sensors in the housing program. The software is updated automatically using a Bittorrent client.

To create your own Flash widgets is under Linux, the open source development environment Ming available under Windows, offers also available as open source software to FlashDevelop.

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