Chumby's got a Mike port, as for headphones it'd take practically nothing to mod one in as it's got stereo speaker outs on the daughter card (at least on the HSP daughtercard, I'm not sure about the default daughtercard as the schematics haven't been posted yet).

All I care for is that Chumby's "Chumbilical" has a nice connector on it that's easy to work with. Pin headers are fine, but ugly on a shipping product, but I'm not sure what else they would use here instead (pins are extremely nice for hardware hacking though; I just don't want Chumby to have an ugly connector like the iPod's that's nearly impossible to use without a matching connector).

the microphone is for voice recognition possibley.

i thought chumby has a microphone line, but no actual connector?

and the web cam is probably not a possibility. i struggled to run a web camera in black and white on a 233 mhz pc.

awalton: you know you can buy ipod connectors fairly cheap? if you are looking for one, i can get an in car charger for £1, so you could chop the connector off

i would pay extra to have an SD card slot. or whatever slot is best (i like SD, cos my digicam takes it, and my phone takes mini-sd).

i think the chumbilical should have some sort of connector, to allow for expansions. but make each expansion so another thing could be added to it.

id be willing to do some PCBs for expansion, but nothing too complicated

SD card is very easy to implement. But the USB-SD should also  be fairly easy to do.
This makes me wonder....
As of this moment what is the USB port used for? is it enabled already? Plans for the future?

sounds good. hope it works with mp3 players, for mass storage. so you can listen to your choons on chumby, and on your mp3 player.

on those lines, id like some low-level activesync support, but i think im asking a lot. i have a windows mobile phone, so i keep my music on there, for on the go. it would be cool to grab files from that.

although, i shouldnt see why a fileserver couldnt be written for the phone and then just bluetooth over to the chumby. im gonna look into it.

I think that if the designers are worried about there not being enough space for all the connectors, why not do what Sony does with  thier UX laptops? Have a card who's cord plugs into the Chumby with a big, flat connector. Then on the card you have your USB ports, SD slot ect..

an SD Card slot would make me muchly happy

And i'm sure that most people won't mind buying a bit of SD memory to boost the chumbical storage - After all, it's not exactly expensive to purchase a 128mb SD card - theyre down to like 15 bucks these days, if that. Maybe even include one with the chumby? it wouldnt add more than a couple bux to the price, what with the fact that you'd purchase rather a lot of them.

Oh and maybe an FM radio?

--neg

In responce to reasons for a mic(built in preferbly, and a port if that could be done), possibly skype? At that point you're chumby could also be replacing you're bedside phone as well.

Built in Microphone!

Probably best suited to the Software forum, but as for Skype, perhaps a better approach would be for the Chumby to be an Extender from your PC, i.e. a PC app does all the heavy-lifting, and the Chumby runs a thin-client front-end, with the voice data being shuttled between the two?  I would hope that this could be an approach for a number of applications that would otherwise be too processor-intensive for the Chumby?

- MV -

IR I/O of sufficiently wideband to interface with existing IR headphones, Device controllers and controllable devices.

Then someone who is a better coder than I am could write a "Learn Mode" script for IR keyboards.

Scenario of viability from where I sit now- Chumby could detect my IR command for TV off- start sleep timer to wake me up X hours later by sending IR to lights on Ceiling fan light kit 's IR port- and softly play music from KKSF as wakeup.

Oren