MICHAEL BALCOS

MALAYA BURNER

Last updated in November 13, 2011

This was the Malaya Burner in Bluepoint's Software Freedom Day (SFD) celebration in September, 2011

Malaya Burner was developed by Michael Balcos as a personal project. It is a low cost alternative to the Freedom Toaster, and it's conception was formed out of discussions with some people in the Open Source movement in Metro Manila, the Philippines. The code it uses is written in Perl and C. The lower cost is made possible by using a small, monochrome, and text based LCD matrix for output, and a simple numeric keypad for input. The numeric keypad has certain keys physically disabled, and has the '-' key assigned for the 'Cancel' function.