Bunnie is among a few people that I look up to a lot as not just being innovative as an inventor and engineer, but also a practical and fearless one at that. Th

Bunnie is among a few people that I look up to a lot as not just being innovative as an inventor and engineer, but also a practical and fearless one at that. The "sue the US government" was a crazy and genius move. I have hacked on his hardware -- the Chumby. I had a lot of fun working that was the inspiration for me to do many things that I do now. In the past job working for the IT department in a small state university right after graduating, I convinced the administration to buy a truck of overstock Best Buy-rebranded Chumbies. I converted those little boxs to an economical audio/visual/projector control system for our classrooms in 2012 (they are still used until today, I think!). If I recall correctly, that's even after the Chumby as a company dissolved. The software was largely abandoned at that point, yet it didn't stop great things like that to happen. I wrote quite a bit about hacking and putting weird software for the Chumby on my blog, but the highlight was that specific experience [1]. I hope the link I posted doesn't come out as self promotion, because the intention here is to celebrate the spirit that bunnie put into ordinary people like me. Honestly, I am pretty proud and every time I talk about that experience, it puts a smile on my face. All of that wouldn't have been possible without open hardware and free software. I wish this world have more people like him, so we can all inspire people to make hardware and have fun with technology. 1: http://www.tnhh.net/posts/crankshaft-chumby-do-you-believe-in-the-users.html http://www.tnhh.net/posts/crankshaft-chumby-do-you-believe-i...