[wplug] hackable Linux touchscreen on sale at Best Buy

Kevin Dunn supkdunn at gmail.com
Fri Feb 11 13:00:36 EST 2011


Yes, thank you for this info
On Feb 11, 2011 12:26 PM, "George Larson" <george.g.larson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I, for one, am thrilled that you shared this! A thousand thank-yous, sir.
>
> On 11 February 2011 11:51, Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu> wrote:
>
>> My apologies if this is off-topic.
>>
>> Best Buy is selling the 8" Insignia Infocast for $80. It's a 800 MHz
>> ARM device with an 8" touchscreen and WiFi, running Linux, and seems
>> very hackable. Out of the box you can use it to run any of the Chumby
>> apps, plus display photos from memory cards.
>>
>> See here for a review:
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2366911,00.asp
>>
>> See here for lots of information from Andrew "bunnie" Huang, one of
>> the designers, about hacking it:
>> http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=1140
>>
>> Disclaimer: I just bought one but haven't started hacking it yet.
>> (And I have no affiliation with Best Buy, etc.)
>>
>> --
>> Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
>> _______________________________________________
>> wplug mailing list
>> wplug at wplug.org
>> http://www.wplug.org/mailman/listinfo/wplug
>>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://www.wplug.org/pipermail/wplug/attachments/20110211/6321ef37/attachment.html 


More information about the wplug mailing list