The Chumby Hacker Board is a cool single board Linux computer that has much of the same hardware as the famous Chumby One. It's great for people who are experienced with Linux and want to have the power of a microcomputer with audio and video output while at the same time getting all the peripherals of a microcontroller such as analog-to-digital conversion, PWM outputs, sensors, bit twiddling, and broken-out GPIOs!
While Adafruit believe that the CHB is a fairly easy-to-use Single Board Computer, having a pre-installed OS on the included uSD card and drivers for the peripherals, it's not designed for beginners! The board is best used by those with previous Linux experience. The good news is you don't have to have another Linux computer to set up the CHB but you should have familiarity with shells and shell scripting, gcc, make, dmesg, etc. They also suggest having had some poking around with microcontrollers such as BASIC Stamp, Arduino, AVR, PIC, 8051, etc. So that when Adafruit say "i2c" and "not 5v tolerant I/Os" you can follow along
This is the v1.0 release, slightly updated from the Beta. This version does not have 'Arduino' headers on the back anymore, since they were not terribly useful. Instead, the 0.1" header breakout has been expanded to include more useful pins. This makes the CHB slimmer but just as useful. The SD card has been doubled in size.
Please note, the CHB is not in any way officially supported by Chumby Industries! Chumby has generously offered a Forum and Wiki where they will try to share information but there is absolutely no tech support or guarantee that the CHB will meet your project needs. Please do not contact Chumby directly either by email or phone for help with your CHB. If you have questions, please post to their forums to receive help from others and the occasional assistance from a CHB developer.
Whats so great about it anyhow? Well! Adafruit have a list!
You'll want to pick up a 5V switching power supply, a 2.1mm to 1.7mm adapter cable, a 3.3v FTDI cable and an A/V cable to get started.
Want some more information? Check out Adafruit's Getting Started with the Chumby Hacker Board tutorial page which will show you how to get booted, connected and read data from the on-board triple-axis accelerometer in an evening. Wow!
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