• The Chumby One tear-down

    Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

    Biggs is the East Cost Editor of TechCrunch. Biggs has written for the New York Times, InSync, USA Weekend, Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Money and a number of other outlets on technology and wristwatches. He is the former editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and lives in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet him here and G+ him here. Email him directly at... → Learn More

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    It so sad when they expose the guts of devices like the Chumby One. The Chumby has personality, you know? You kind of feel for it? Oh well. iFixIt tore the Chumby into little bits, splaying the processor, screen, and even the speaker for all to see. There’s not much to see here but the motherboard features:

    64 MB Hynix HY5DU121622BTP CMOS Double DataRate (DDR) Synchronous DRAM
    GL8520G USB 2.0 Hub
    MMA7455 3-axis accelerometer
    QN8005B FM radio
    Blank space for NAND flash (not used due to booting from MicroSD)
    MicroSD socket complete with a 2GB Kingston MicroSD firmware card
    Unpopulated passives for composite (NTSC/PAL) video output

    This means there is plenty of room in here as well as a potential for adding your own firmware to this little fellow, thereby breaking him free of the Chumby chains forever. You can read the whole thing right here, but it will just make you sad.

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