Chumby Industries has a recent case study posted on ADC. This is good high level read on how Chumby Industries is leveraging Flash Lite 3 within their consumer electronic device.

Here is a quote:

“Adobe Flash is the only stable, reliable product on the market to offer rich, colorful animation along with built-in security measures for media access. Rather than create a new suite of tools, we can leverage the sheer strength and expertise of the Flash community for content development.”

Stephen Tomlin, CEO, Chumby Industries, Inc

Download the Chumby Cast Study (PDF).

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If you have a chumby and developing Flash Lite widgets for it (or thinking about doing so), please email me. I have something I’d like to share, that I created a while back.

Some of you from MAX I may have already contacted … if so, disregard.

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A quick post, but my Flash Lite 3 slides from the recent BFPUG (Boston Flash Platform User Group) are now available over at slideshare. You can download them here.

For more information about Flash Lite 3, check out all the info over at Adobe … or check out my relevant blog posts.

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Bug Labs has an interesting concept.

buglabs.net is selling a kit which allows the average tech savvy consumer (but not necessarily an all out hardware “hacker”) the ability to create/experiment with snap friendly type hardware components.

“BUG makes it fun and easy to build any gadget you can imagine. Build familiar things like digital cameras and GPS locators or create new devices like a LoCamMotion or a GeoPhotoShooter or an Accel-o-Mailer or … the list is endless!”

This enables a technical savvy individual (with at least some rudimentary software skills) to create and program their own device(s) …

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Here is some news coming from the blog’s of the folks at chumby in regards to how they are handling an “Insider’s Launch”.

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No it’s not Gumby (oh nooooo, Mr. Bill), it’s “Chumby”.

Keith Peters just posted about the unreleased Flash Lite 2 enabled device.

If the iriver u10 and nabaztag ever had offspring, this would likely be it. 

At first glance, it looks to be just an alarm clock, but after you read about the device, you’ll think differently.

Interested? Check out “What is Chumby?”. There is also info on engadget and dyl world.

Here are the hardware specs (subject to change):

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For those interested, the guys from Chumby are here at MAX. They are giving a Birds-of-a-Feather session scheduled for Tuesday night from 8:30 pm-10:00 pm.

Here is the link to the post, and here is the breakdown of the session:

Creating Widgets for the chumby, an Open, Hackable, Teen-oriented Wi-Fi Flash Device

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I put some time towards creating a Chumby Device Profile for Adobe Device Central CS3 (Note: It’s very alpha at this point in time).

I am releasing this into the wild, because Adobe just released a Device Profile Update #4 … meaning it’s most likely to be quite some time before a certified Chumby profile makes it into Device Central via an update (if it does at all).

If you do decide to use it (at your own digression), please be mindful that I am looking for feedback.

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I forgot to post this a while back, but here is a new zip containing a new Flash CS3 template and accompanying .adpp (device central update file).

This is for those used to working within a mobile context and ADC and just want to carry over a more familiar workflow process. It is not required for chumby widget development … and there are pros and cons to targeting Flash 8 versus Flash Lite for chumby widget development (I will not go into that here).

The new one contains some fixes, and is a bit easier to install.

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Cool, if you are into following College B-ball (and have a chumby).

Here is the release:

Chumby Industries and CBS Team Up to Offer ‘College Hoops’ Widget for College Basketball Tournament

Now chumby users can wake up to the latest real-time scores, game previews, highlights, headlines, articles, and more provided by CBS

San Diego, CA - March 19, 2008 - Chumby Industries officially released today a CBS ‘College Hoops’ widget for the College Basketball Tournament March 16 - April 7, 2008.

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