Browsebox - Chumby meets Squeezebox

March 18, 2007
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    Brendan,

    This is awesome and is one of the best examples yet of what we hoped clever hackers would do with their prototype chumbys. As a happy Squeezebox owner, I can’t wait to try this myself!

    Hats off to you.

    Steve Tomlin
    CEO
    Chumby Industries, Inc.

    Steve Tomlin / 18/03/2007

    Thanks Steve! I’ll have the source for download in a day or so so people can play!

    Brendan Dawes / 18/03/2007

    Looks great. How did you get access to the slim server’s IP? In my version the widget swf does a loadMovie() pointing to the local network (where I have another .swf in the same domain as slimserver).

    Thanks,
    Phillip

    Phillip Kerman / 18/03/2007

    Hi Philip,

    Well I have a QNAP box running Slimserver so what I had to do is put a crossdomain.xml file on my Mac webserver and then use a php proxy to then access the slimserver. Ideally I should have been able to just put the crossdomain.xml file on the slimserver but no matter where I put it (via telnet) it just wouldn’t show up via the browser! This was the next best thing!

    Bren / 19/03/2007

    Hello,

    It is very nice. What do you think of nabaztag ?
    They are also making smart objects and the latest nabaztagtag is impressive.
    See this demo :
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RLesLb2JVI

    Erik

    Erik from norway / 22/03/2007

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    As I recently mentioned I’ve been working on a little project to create a visual album browser for my Squeezebox using the Chumby (thanks to Shawn at FITC). So after getting back from SXSW I managed to get the first prototype up and running.

    browsebox

    See it in action and read more details of the why and a bit of the how. Hopefully over the next few weeks I can find time to improve the idea of the “browsebox” and see how far I can push the Chumby in terms of performance and interaction.

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