Chumby Hacks (Insignia Infocast)

First off, I could not ssh into my device from Putty or any other remote terminal as described in the Chumby Tricks wiki. So, I attached a USB keyboard to the Infocast, which automatically puts it in terminal mode. Then, I typed:

mount -o remount,rw /

putting the root filesystem into read,write mode.
Next, type:

passwd root

to create a root password. Enter it twice as prompted, then you should be able to ssh in remotely.
Unplug your keyboard and ssh into it from a remote computer!

Successfully connected? You should see the chumby logo in ASCII art.

Next, we'll have the sshd server always start upon bootup.
From your remote terminal app of choice, type:

touch /psp/start_sshd

That's all there is to it!

Following the directions at adafruit, I next installed the falconwing gcc toolchain. So far, so good!

Using directions from this page, install python! Here's how to install it: 

cd /mnt/storage 

wget http://files.chumby.com/languages/python/python2.6-­chumby.tgz 

tar -­xzf python2.6-­chumby.tgz 

python --­­help 

Great! Now I have all the programming environments necessary for more robotic tinkering in the near future.