YBox2 DIY networked set-top box keeps the dream alive

The YBox was pretty much destined to become a hit with the DIY crowd just as soon as it was handed 15 spectacular minutes at last summer's Maker Faire. For those who reckoned the project would fade into the sunset as quickly as it arrived, we've got news proving your assumptions wrong... dead wrong. YBox2 has at long last arrived to the party, ready to serve up widgets and all sorts of pertinent information on your television screen. The new kit boasts an 80MHz Parallax Propeller chip and functions with any NTSC / PAL TV and any DHCP-compatible router -- and yes, it still all fits within a flashy Altoids tin. Score!

[Via MAKE]

[Ben @ Jun 4th 2008 6:13PM]

Is this for real?

[nikola @ Jun 4th 2008 9:55PM]

so what does this do? I could watch a movie from my computer on my tv?

someone help those of us who don't speek "geek".

[bohsocks @ Jun 4th 2008 6:17PM]

awesome!!!!!

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shameless_plug

[rektide @ Jun 4th 2008 6:18PM]

I'm majorly impressed by that cardboard work. Very clean. I love the knobs.

[bohsocks @ Jun 4th 2008 6:18PM]

I bet you do....

[retro77 @ Jun 4th 2008 6:21PM]

he said knobs

[bohsocks @ Jun 4th 2008 6:25PM]

I know. It was a good old-fashioned immature dick joke.

Silly ole bear....

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=knob

[Cal @ Jun 4th 2008 6:30PM]

"I love the knobs."

That's what she said

[MeatPop @ Jun 4th 2008 6:54PM]

*fiddlin' knobs, touching keys, having fun with full grown men*

-his mantra

[waddaya @ Jun 4th 2008 6:22PM]

I thought it was powered by an 80MHz Parallax Peppermint Chip. You know it will always have that brand new smell.

[Ian @ Jun 4th 2008 7:04PM]

yummy!

[OneLove @ Jun 4th 2008 6:23PM]

gaychick.com

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/soul_patch

[Aguiluz @ Jun 4th 2008 6:31PM]

jay @ Jun 4th 2008 6:15PM
cool!!!
*url removed*


Spam much? Spamming a website is disliked and gives you a bad name.

[quomen @ Jun 4th 2008 6:36PM]

Those Altoid tins are really handy. Reminds me of a cmoy headphone amp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cmoy

[The Pepto Pimp @ Jun 4th 2008 7:44PM]

Okay, this thing is so odd I might have to get one.*

The comments are odd too.*








* - That's what she said!

[Interpol @ Jun 4th 2008 8:16PM]

Minty!

[ladyada @ Jun 4th 2008 8:50PM]

Ha! I had to make the cardboard 'TV' because people thought that the Sony Playstation LCD (which doubles as a very useful portable TV) was a playstation :)

[marty.com.au @ Jun 4th 2008 9:38PM]

so this is like a homemade chumby?

[ladyada @ Jun 4th 2008 9:43PM]

pretty much, but a little more "old school" ;)

[siriusfox @ Jun 4th 2008 9:48PM]

Interesting.

[David @ Jun 4th 2008 10:03PM]

Guys stop posting rubbish spam like "interesting" "minty" "awesome" "cool etc. It doesn't add anything and you're wasting both yours and everyone else's time. Perhaps you could start by commenting on the article itself?
Why post when you have nothing to say?

[Mile @ Jun 4th 2008 10:41PM]

Super cool!

[Tony @ Jun 4th 2008 11:03PM]

Will it play doom?

[Jooseppi @ Jun 5th 2008 3:56AM]

Extra minty!!

[Dan Davis @ Jun 5th 2008 10:20AM]

Awesome post!