Hi All,
Thought id quickly introduce myself as a new member! Im a Masters student at Reading University UK studying Computer Science and Cybernetics so the thought of getting all this funky hardware for such a silly price seemed like a fantastic idea!
I know that on Sunday, Tesco were selling the E3 for £30. Today when I went in there to pick one up, they had gone up to £50! After a small amount of googling i found that Currys, Dixons, Argos and Toys r Us are all still doing it for £30 - I will go and get one tomorrow morning.
I am interested in the software side - being able to run own custom software on it [ip video phone, skype, home automation controller, maybe even a normal phone and networked answer machine!] - the possibilities are quite interesting to what you can do with quite a cool bit of IO hardware in a convenient form factor. But the other great use is just for components - even the screen and camera are pretty good items to get for 30 quid!
Thats all for now - but if anyone has any suggestions on what i should start to investigate first with this beast as there is no point us all working on exactly the same thing. My low-level firmware is not great (willing to improve), but i'm ok(ish) with the hardware side and pretty hot on the higher-level software.
Chris