I got me a Chumby!
Yesterday I met the guy from Chumby at the Adobe MAX conference, and then last night attended the Birds of a Feather meeting for the Chumby device. Duane was very generous and gave me a Chumby for myself was very cool and I'm looking forward to getting home and building some widgets for it.For those who don't know, the Chumby is a Flash Lite 2.0 enabled Wi-Fi device that is kind of an intelligent alarm clock - but so much more. It has direct "squeezable" and motion sensors that can be accessed by the Flash player, it has in built in web server, Wi-Fi connectivity, possible Bluetooth support and a touchscreen for user input. It's also completely open source (apart from the Flash Lite player) and the concept is for a device designed for the connected teen market, but in a anti-iPod form factor. Way cool and my kids are going to love it when I bring it home!
posted by Dale Rankine @ 2:05 AM
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Dang! I was torn between Chumby BOF and Flex BOF and went with the Flex BOF in the end. Looks like I missed out! I only have a thousand ideas for Chumby! Keep us posted on your development experiences!
Your kids are going to have a blast giving the chumby a name.
:)
I think I lucked out a bit with getting one - he didn't seem to have that many left but he did mention that their next production run was going to be given away to mainly Flash lite developers. What about creating a Chumby FL Developer Group for ideas and development? Duane seemed to be pretty keen to get FL developers working on content.
"I'm looking forward to getting home and building some widgets for it."
Great, Dale, I'm glad you made that connection, and I think you'll do great things with it.
There's already a proven market for wireless info appliances, but there's no comparison between a dedicated LCD screen and the form factor & display of a Chumby. There's a real need here, I think.
jd
I signed up on the Chumby site a while ago to register my interest and just received a response saying they'll be distributing about 50 to flash developers to create some widgets with.
Seems like it could be a big hit for Internet loving kids and the like.
(Yeah and me too!)
Hi! Congratulations on getting a chumby...look forward to seeing you in the chumby forum and your widgets on the network soon! Angela
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