[sparky_]

What would be the advantage of frankensteining something together using this board as opposed to something like Arduino or Rasp Pi?

[xemdetia]

I do not think this slide deck is really trying to get you to try to frankenstein something out of the board but more that there is a well established microcontroller they are using in the chromebook with a well-developed software platform to run on it. If anything the 'franken' part just comes from using the Chromium OS code and less the actually common microcontrollers.

[rasz_pl]

Blinking leds is one thing, hiding encryption store is another.

Remember a story of GCHQ going over Guardians Macbook with a dremel and destroying every single chip capale of storing bits?