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During 2002 whilst I was busy dropping out of my PhD I started toying with a settop "Internet TV" box made by Bush/Pace. It's got an ARM7 in it. After attaching a Sharp LCD panel (with meccano...) I ported/cleaned up the SIND ethernet driver/IP stack/scheduler to the board, and made it into a more complete bootloader. The ethernet card is an ISA NE2000 driven through the board's printer port, and the bootloader brings in a (Linux 2.4) kernel with TFTP. There's a basic shell to configure the bootserver and filenames, details of which are stored in the board's EEPROM. Below it's running a couple of swirly demos.
There are no applications for this. It just twirls about, it's not amazingly useful. It almost fits on the wall.. to make a garish addition to any modern livingroom!
See also Vincent S's STB hacking page.
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