Whats involved in making a custom TV box?

[iamzug]

Just curious, I am interested to know what is involved in making a TV box with a SoC like the 3188? We see loads of new TV boxes coming out of China every month, does this suggest that it is relatively simple to take the SoC and design and produce your own full board with Android on it?
In my simple mind, it sounds mind-blowingly complicated, is this the case? If not, why do we not see more community-developed android boxes?

[budgetgeek]

Raspberry Pi / Arduino

Just curious, I am interested to know what is involved in making a TV box with a SoC like the 3188?

I think you can build something like it at home with the Raspberry Pi and maybe the Arduino.

The companies building these benefit from the size of their operations, so they can build them cheaply, while buying and building your own Pi or Arduino may cost over 60 GBP.

[budgetgeek]

http://linuxgizmos.com/intel-unveils-tiny-x86-minnowboard-max-open-sbc/

Just saw this in the news. Looks interesting.