WM8505 is the name of the system-on-chip which this laptop uses. It's ARM920 based, and there's a great following of people trying (and succeeding) to do interesting thing with them. Some interesting links:
VIA ARM SoC based netbook forum
Slatedroid - a forum for duscussing tablets made with the same, and similar, chipsets.
Discussion on slatedroid regarding rewriting the flash chip to "de-brick"
Project gus - another blog related to this chipset (and other things)
Comment on projectgus regarding JTAG use
And some more pictures!
Here's the display unit and display. It's a pretty bog standard 7" LCD, HannStar branded. I can't seem to find a datasheet for this so I won't be able to use it for anything else unless I'm really patient with a logic analyser (unlikely).
And here's my MAX233 Logic level converter. You don't have to make them yourself, there're loads available from other sources (ebay and the like). The easiest way to make one is to get a usb-mobile phone lead like this and cut the phone end off. Then you can just connect it directly, as the cable contains the level converter. If you're planning on doing that, this link will be useful (via http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/HowTo/AddASerialPort).
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