[wplug] hackable Linux touchscreen on sale at Best Buy

Chris Clonch chris at theclonchs.com
Wed Feb 16 07:46:09 EST 2011


This is great!  I immediately ran out and grabbed one; needed to blow my
holiday gift cards anyways.  Thank you for sharing!

-Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Cooper <ecc at cmu.edu>
Reply-to: General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] hackable Linux touchscreen on sale at Best Buy
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:51:15 -0500

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.)






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