Chumby source download

Maybe, but it is a lot harder to make one you or your significant other wants on your nightstand. His hacker cred goes way back to the original Xbox, which he reverse engineered and laid bare its security flaws. Maintaining his hacker spirit he went on to design and hack the Chumby. More recently he took on the challenge of developing and Open laptop called Novena. Since the Chumby servers went offline earlier this year, [Huan] found himself with a few of these tiny, extremely hackable internet devices lying around.

Combine the two desires, and you can make a personal cloud with a Chumby , thanks to some help from the people at BitTorrent Labs. After creating a webkit interface for BitTorrent Sync, [Huan] loaded up his Chumby with new firmware, set up a few folders to be synced, and let the Chumby do all the work. He decided to give the Chumby a try, but was turned off by its use of Flash as the app framework.

In the video after the break he shows the boot sequence and demonstrates his first app. The device runs through a screen calibration as it powers on. This technique gives you pretty wide range of app development languages. He started in hacking X-boxes and sharing his findings with the world. It is this sharing that makes [Bunnie] stand out. He has always shared all his findings and pushed for open source wherever it would fit. We recently discussed how Chumby, a project to which [Bunnie] contributed is coming to an end.

In this interview, he talks about what the future holds for himself and how he plans to spend his time. Hearing that Chumby will no longer be selling hardware makes us a little sad.

Let us all take a moment of silence. Periodically the source files named in the recipes disappear or change, and you will get build errors. Typically this can be solved in one of these ways:. Skip to content. Star Chumby Hackers Board OpenEmbedded build tools 27 stars 9 forks. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Git stats 67 commits. Failed to load latest commit information.

View code. Select only the minimum required packages, plus the SSH server. Follow the installer prompts to complete the installation and reboot. Once you have a Debian console, perform the following: Install git-core and make manually, and change the default shell from dash to bash OpenEmbedded prefers bash.

Releases No releases published.