Python

Why Python?

 * because writing in C sucks
 * your time is valuable
 * once a python zealot, always a python zealot.

Compiling python from source

 * 1) Construct the Scratchbox environment.
 * 2) Download the source to the python flavor of your choice

If you're too lazy to do all that...
You can download all of this prebuilt in python2.6-chumby.tgz (13MB).

Just unpack onto a USB drive, add your python code and a "debugchumby" script, and you can write your own python applications for your chumby!