I purchased an IP04 from www.rowetel.com. Had it shipped priority and had it in just over a week all the way from Australia (”aaaaaaah, Crickey!”).
I was overly anxious so I busted open the box while sitting in my car at the post office. Ah, the smell of new electronics. The thing looks just like an [...]

I’ve been tinkering with the Soekris net5501 for several months now. In fact I’ve been playing with several different embedded designs (Digium AA50 and Routerboard 532A to name a few) with several different Linux and Asterisk combinations.
Things I don’t like about it:

The enclosure it came in. This thing is a god awful off-green/blue/turquoise/whatever color. It’s [...]

If you’re the proud owner of a MagicJack or are looking to buy one to hack then this info might be useful if you use Asterisk.
Original article found at: http://revolution.hackthisbox.com/magicjack/readme
Replace EXXXXXXXXXX01 with your MJ number. Include E and 01.
Replace the proxy proxy1.Atlanta.talk4free.com:5070 with the proxy your MJ registers to and change host=67.90.138.70 to host=YourProxyIPHere.
Replace XXXXXpasswordXXXXX [...]

We recently broke down and purchased an IP04, a Blackfin 532 based IP PBX, from www.ucpbx.com. I’ve read many good things regarding the processor and the work being put in to AstFin, the Asterisk/Linux distro for the board.
I expect many hours of fun exploring the device once it arrives. I’ll post more when it’s finally [...]

After running my home Asterisk setup on an old Dell desktop for the past year I decided to take the plunge in to an embedded system - a Soekris Net5501.
I settled on the 5501-60 which comes configured with the following:

Small form factor enclosure
433 Mhz Geode processor
256 Mbyte RAM
4 Mbyte boot flash
4 ethernet ports
2 serial ports [...]