People love opensource software, and sometimes, they have a spare toaster standing around that needs to be “recycled” somehow.
At DefCon 9, a person named Shrdlu brought a PC contained in a toaster. The toaster didn’t work anymore, but the Pentium MMX board booted Slackware Linux alright(and prolly also could have run Windows 95):
http://www.digitaltrash.org/projects/toaster/
2005, Technologic Systems, a manufacturer of single board computers, felt like attempting the toaster again-but this time, the machine was intended to serve web pages AND toast bread:
http://laughingsquid.com/2005/08/11/netbsd-toaster/
Jesse Off, the developer of the toaster, made an interesting interview about the problems faced:
http://www.embeddedarm.com/news/netbsd_toaster.htm
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