Nice, but I want a keyboard and a more readable size display, so no ipod-wiki for me. However, reverse-engineering those ebook files could be useful.
Oh by the way, the header which calls this a "computer" in quotes is misleading. This is a 100% Turing complete computer. It even goes beyond the Turing definition of computer to include keyboard input (instead of just register switches) as well as readable text output, a fully programmable tri-CPU design, and onboard storage to the tune of 4 gigabytes maximum. The tools used to code the device are even open source.
Lastly, I looked through the design files, and this thing can do PWM sound, and potentially much more than that with some clever programming. The USB device control CPU could be re-programmed for sound generation or any number of things. It's intended to be used as a reprogrammable co-processor.
EDIT 2: I also looked through the bill of materials (which is quite small) and a presentation which the designer(s) made to a group of Unix geeks a short while ago, and it seems that even with a pitifully small volume of production (100 units) the cost per-unit minus the cost of enclosure and SD card is a paltry $25. With 10k units it would cost a little under $15. It's amazing to me how inexpensive this could be. Compared to an Apple II+ (which sold for $1200 with no floppy drive or monitor!), which is the closest thing I can think of to compare it to, (in terms of the user-perceived output) it has 48 times the CPU power, quadruple the RAM, and literally thousands of times more storage space. I know that (probably) Steve Wozniak would have killed his own grandmother for computational muscle like that back in the day.
Last edited by arfink (Jul 21, 2010 9:25 pm)