Chumby hacker boards

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Chumby hacker boards
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For hackers who missed out on the Chumby craze, Adafruit has a pile of Chumby PCBs for sale.

The Chumby Hacker Board is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the famous Chumby One. It’s great for people who are experienced with Linux and want to have the power of a microcomputer with audio and video output while at the same time getting all the peripherals of a microcontroller such as analog-to-digital conversion, PWM outputs, sensors, bit twiddling, and broken-out GPIOs!

Here’s what you get for $89:

รขโ‚ฌยข Freescale iMX.233 processor running at 454 MHZ and 64 MB onboard RAM.
รขโ‚ฌยข Comes with 512MB uSD card with 100 MB Linux installation all ready to go.
รขโ‚ฌยข 3.3V I/O pins can talk to most sensors, motor drivers, etc. No struggling with 1.8V levels.
รขโ‚ฌยข Low power, fanless design draws only (200?) mA at 5V.
รขโ‚ฌยข Built-in Lithium Ion/Polymer battery charger and 5V boost converter for portable projects.
รขโ‚ฌยข Three USB ports!
รขโ‚ฌยข 1W mono speaker amplifier (0.1″ JST onboard connector.)
รขโ‚ฌยข Microphone input (0.05″ JST onboard connector.)
รขโ‚ฌยข LCD controller with 2mm output port.
รขโ‚ฌยข 3.5mm A/V output jack with stereo audio and NTSC/PAL composite video.
รขโ‚ฌยข Back of board has GPIO outputs on 0.1″ header spacing, plug in an Arduino proto shield!
รขโ‚ฌยข 5-way joystick and 3-axis accelerometer on-board.
รขโ‚ฌยข 3.3V TTL serial port for easy shell access.

Looks pretty sweet!

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