Hi

I've already had two chumbies, This kit have the same chumby components, without case. We make some products based on cumby, the only available port is the USB host. I remember that one frequent petition  on chumb's list was the posiiblitity of buy one chumby without case.

I think that Nano can use this idea, for some products, we don't need the keyboard, LCD or case, just the CPU, as use it as device's brain (as Ignacio suggested some days ago), Nano can provide some hardware reference projects for different applications for example one USB dongle with analog ports, or one FPGA with many PWM for robotics, etc


Carlos






On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Michael Shiloh <michaelshiloh1010@gmail.com> wrote:
another open source hardware thing. might be good to form an alliance.

many of you probably know about chumby - the inventor, bunnie huang, is a good friend of sean's.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Rare Kit-Form Chumbys Inbound to the Maker Shed
Date:   Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:53:46 +1000
From:   Dan Woods, Maker Shed <custserv@makermedia.com>
Reply-To:       custserv@makermedia.com
To:     michael@michaelshiloh.com <michael@michaelshiloh.com>



MakerSHED <http://makermedia.createsend.com/t/r/l/ddluih/yduitkhlh/r>

Dear Loyal Maker Shed Customer,

During the last Maker Faire, we unveiled a truly unique product in the
Maker Shed store — an actual Chumby in kit form. The open–source Chumby
is Linux–based with plenty of widgets already coded. Produced and
packaged expressly for Maker Shed by Chumby, the kit contained
everything you need to build your own Chumby or to hack it into into a
form factor of your own choosing, including an accelerometer, 3.5"
touchscreen LCD, USB WiFi dongle, 3 USB 2.0 ports, and a powerful
motherboard. The price was just $99. We sold out within 3 hours.

Through a special arrangement with our good friends at Chumby, we have
managed to acquire another small quantity of these rare Chumby Kits.
These kits are presently en route from the factory and we expect them to
sell out in record time. And so I thought "why not make them available
exclusively to our very best and most loyal Maker Shed customers first,
before offering them for sale to the public?" Think of it as our way of
thanking you for your patronage.

This is an exclusive invitation to pre-order your own kit-form Chumby
for just $99. To review product details and pre-order, please visit this
unpublished Maker Shed link.
<http://makermedia.createsend.com/t/r/l/ddluih/yduitkhlh/y>

Again, this is a special offer that we are making first to our very best
customers. There is a limit of 3 kits per customer, and when they're
gone, they're gone. I'll try to get more, but I cannot guarantee that
we'll see these again.

All The Best,

Dan

Dan Woods
General Manager, Maker Shed
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Carlos Iván Camargo Bareño
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Departamento de Ingeniería Eléctrica y Electrónica
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
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