>>we are still lacking easy entry I give you, the Open Pandora project - a bunch of open-source hackers who are spearheading the hardware rennaissance and show

>>we are still lacking easy entry I give you, the Open Pandora project - a bunch of open-source hackers who are spearheading the hardware rennaissance and showing everyone, along the way, how to do it - and not do it (also: volcano): http://openpandora.org http://openpandora.org One day, probably soon, there will be books written about this project. It is an awesome thing - the device itself, the people involved (EvilDragon and his merry band VERSUS Craigix' Reality Distortion Field [really, he has one!]), and the whole community. The Open Pandora Community is a very, very, very fertile y-combinator with proven track record of delivering, within its own realm of course, much value. So, check it out, yo. Open Pandora .. 2.0 .. could be a YC project? Or .. the inevitable spinoffs? (The Open Pandora is old enough now that there will soon be splinter factions establishing new product, btw..)