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> Anyway, I don't know how much time I'll have available, but I'd like
> to help. I've been dabbling in embedded systems hardware and FPGAs,
> and I've been working on the PicoGUI (http://piocgui.org) graphical
> architecture for embedded systems. I have this little dream of
> building a custom system on a chip that incorporates dual RISC CPUs
> and a custom graphics engine, but that might be a bit power hungry
> for a handheld using current technology :)

If we get the interface right, there's no reason why we couldn't use
high-powered CPUs in the slot for non-battery applications too.