The winner of Name that Ware May 2009 is thinkthank, guessed in under a half hour. The ware is a Ronetix PEEDI JTAG/BDM box. I was looking for a ware to post last month and this was sitting on the shelf next to me. I was always wondering what was on the inside, so I took it apart and scanned the PCB. I didn’t suspect that a PEEDI JTAG box would be so easy to guess from an image of its guts, but I guess it was: “It has an FPGA on it so that rules out consumer electronics. What has ethernet, RS232, and a 20 pin header on it? First thing that came to mind was a JTAG debugger device.” Congratulations, email me to claim your prize!
You might haven’t intended to do so, but I think you have managed to express the state of mind that a lot of people are in. The sense of wanting to help, but not knowing how or where, is something a lot of us are going via.