Open Source eBook Reader and Mobile Media Device

Shareable reports on Microtouch: An Open Source, DIY eBook Reader and Mobile Media Device

Created with minimal hardware resources and much ingenuity, the Microtouch is a neat gadget you can make yourself or you can buy pre-assembled.

Shareable says about it:

Mobile devices are inherently compromised. The iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch all operate within Apple’s tightly-controlled ecosystem. Android is largely an advertising platform for Google, and not nearly as open source as their marketing efforts would have you believe. Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablet will route all web traffic through Amazon’s servers, with troubling privacy implications. Which is why it’s encouraging to see that enterprising hardware hackers are building DIY, open source mobile devices that could potentially replace those tightly-controlled eReaders and mobile media and Internet devices that we clutch so tightly.

Designed by the elusive maker Rossum, the Microtouch is a homebrewed mobile media device. Using an Atmega32u4 microcontroller and a touch-sensitive LCD screen, the Microtouch is on its way to being a libre iPod Touch alternative. There’s a number of apps for the device, including an image browser, a paint app, and emulations of games including Pac Man and the classic text adventure Zork.

You can read eBooks on it [Video]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=314v1H_aN2o

And another game on the Microtouch: Mines