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Re:Chumby is back by peteforde on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:00AM (#7975119)
I find it frustrating that the blog post does not explain what a Chumby is.

Neither does the chumby.com homepage.

Incredibly, neither does the item description in the Chumby store.

I'm sure that this announcement is great news for someone, but is Chumby supposed to be a well-kept secret? Why make it so hard to discover what a Chumby does and for who?

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Re:Chumby is back by lnanek2 on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @12:04AM (#7975128)
Had to look it up on Wikipedia myself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chumby

I do vaguely remember it now. Surprised he doesn't just do a Chumby 2 on kickstarter.

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Re:Chumby is back by unwiredben on Wednesday July 02, 2014 @11:24AM (#7977493)
Producing new hardware would probably require a bit of renegotiating, and there are likely enough devices out there either in new old stock or unplugged to satisfy demand.

I'd love to see a Chumby distribution for the Raspberry Pi, for example, to support something newer and in production, but that would require figuring out a way to legally license FlashLite from Adobe again.

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