Chumby One gets composite video output via marginally difficult mod

The Chumby One, much like the original, is an interesting beast. For all intents and purposes, it's a mod-friendly box that sits on your nightstand and pushes out real-time information that it pulls down from the web. That said, the inbuilt display may be too small to be considered "glanceable" in some scenarios, and if you're ferociously nodding your head up and down in agreement, we've a hack you should probably see. One xobs recently discovered that a composite video output could be added to the Chumby One, enabling it to output its information onto any display with such an input. Granted, the device can only support a single display at a time, but hey, who ever said you could have your cake and eat it too?

[jeremy480 Posted Dec 28th 2009 2:05PM]

I think the brightness of that giant display might keep me up at night. :)

[joelaf Posted Dec 28th 2009 2:09PM]

On that big a display, it's no longer a Chumby, it's JoChumby, or Ginormby. Chumbzilla

[Dr Yusuf AlKindi Posted Dec 28th 2009 2:21PM]

Only a Chumby is a more pointless gadget than teh Twitter-Peek.

[OwenV Posted Dec 28th 2009 2:33PM]

@Dr Yusuf AlKindi

but also more awesome

[EyeZer0 Posted Dec 28th 2009 2:51PM]

@Dr Yusuf AlKindi I would say it's not that pointless at all. I got one for my girlfriend who's not too tech savvy and only has dumbphone and she loves the thing because she can wake up, listen to pandora and check her Facebook.

[therodt Posted Dec 28th 2009 3:31PM]

@Dr Yusuf AlKindi
Let me seee. for a hundred bucks I got a picture frame, music player, alarm clock, widget player (1500 free ones), completely hackable platform, touch screen, accelerometer, WiFi, twitter, and I can go on and on...I don't think you have a clue to what your talking about...You probably have never actually seen or played with one...Comparing this to twitter-peek is quite illogical.

[cristiana Posted Dec 28th 2009 5:02PM]

@Dr Yusuf AlKindi
I don't want to feed the troll or anything, but, I wanted to say I just got a chumby, and it is an amazing device. The thing is ten times better than what I thought it was going to be like.

[gp Posted Dec 28th 2009 6:41PM]

@Dr Yusuf AlKindi

Say, is yours a doctorate in stupidity?

[spacegravity4me Posted Dec 28th 2009 6:41PM]

Mines on the way! Gets here tomorrow!!!! :)

[tastypotato Posted Dec 28th 2009 7:05PM]

Man! I really want one of these Chumby's to fool around with. I am always looking for fun inexpensive projects that I can mod and goof around with with a soldering iron. :P

Too bad it's still $120, but I might put a little money aside and pick myself up one of these eventually.

[richrecruiter Posted Dec 28th 2009 11:33PM]

Is it possible to get XM radio online through the Chumby? Anyone know?

[pheer6224 Posted Dec 29th 2009 12:28AM]

Anyone else want one for their car?