- Juice Box
The Juice Box is a low cost multimedia player made by toy manufacturer
Mattel . The player features a in to cm|num=2.7|abbr=yes|precision=1|wiki=yes screen with anative resolution of 240×160 px [cite web | url= http://service.mattel.com/instruction_sheets/JuiceBoxManual.pdf |title= Juice Box instructions | accessdate=2007-11-14 |format= PDF] and runsμClinux , a microcontroller version of theLinux kernel. It has 66MHzARM7TDMI architectureSamsung processor, 2 MBytes or 8 MBytes of RAM and 8MB of ROM. It was marketed as a portable media player for kids. The player only played a proprietary cartridge format. Nickelodeon,4Kids Entertainment , andCartoon Network put some of their shows on cartridges. However, the small screen and poor quality (6 frames per second maximum) alienated most people. Furthermore, the device entered a crowded market. Its most potent rival was theGame Boy Advance , which not only hadTV shows, but could also play video games. Thus many retail stores were left with a surplus of the device. Original retail price was about US$70. As in 2008, the player is cheap enough to be a good platform for hobbyists to experiment with design concepts, as it uses a Linux based operating system.Gallery
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* Modifying the [http://www.bigmech.com/misc/juiceboxhack/juiceboxhack.html Juice Box to play without the adapter]
* [http://www.elinux.org/JuiceBox A collection of hardware and software hacks]
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