There are a couple of times that I've been excited about turning some low-cost consumer commodity into a general purpose hackable platform, but these days I'm not sure that it's worth the effort. Those things tend to be very short-lived (replaced in the market by the next bigger better version that isn't necessarily hackable in the same way), and then you have a non-replaceable, non-duplicateable, probably non-repairable, "thing." (I have some Mattel JuiceBoxes, some cybiko systems, and a couple routers that just BARELY lasted long enough to get a DDWRT port. And a gameboy Advanced... There is "some" but not a lot info out there on each of these, but...)