Its open. That's the greatness. The dev kit is a little lacking but already it has GPIO pins if you wanted to do a relay and a usb port for a $20 spark-fun "usb-whacker" if you're too lazy for gpio.
The point is that with the schematic and the backing of Marvell, it will be easy for relatively small players to add cool innovative features with custom builds. Every time I find a place to buy a WRT54G, its different inside and takes a lot of googling and fiddling to get any linux at all on its tiny flash.
The Linksys WRT54G or any hacked Linux powered home NAS are finished products. This is an exciting beginning.
Note: I actually chose lavalamps as an example while looking at the little usb lavalamp on my desk and thinking about writing a tiny web app for this little box so that I could plug it into the usb port and have a "computer free web enabled lava lamp" anywhere in the house. The simple (usb to) serial commands to make the lamp come on and change colors would be super easy with this little device.
The point is that with the schematic and the backing of Marvell, it will be easy for relatively small players to add cool innovative features with custom builds. Every time I find a place to buy a WRT54G, its different inside and takes a lot of googling and fiddling to get any linux at all on its tiny flash.
The Linksys WRT54G or any hacked Linux powered home NAS are finished products. This is an exciting beginning.
Note: I actually chose lavalamps as an example while looking at the little usb lavalamp on my desk and thinking about writing a tiny web app for this little box so that I could plug it into the usb port and have a "computer free web enabled lava lamp" anywhere in the house. The simple (usb to) serial commands to make the lamp come on and change colors would be super easy with this little device.