Static Radio For The Chumby One
A hacker turned an old 2009 Chumby One into a dedicated Static Radio appliance. Brendan Fitzpatrick wrote a native C client that runs on the Chumby's 454 MHz ARM9 CPU, which has no FPU, only 60 MB of RAM, and runs Linux 2.6.28. The client starts from a USB stick without touching the original firmware. It bundles mbedTLS to replace the stock OpenSSL 0.9.7 from 2004, plus a fixed-point Helix MP3 decoder, HE-AAC, and a polyphase resampler feeding ALSA. It buffers the current station plus two neighboring stations so switching channels crossfades cleanly.

