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There is a real danger that millions of them will end up either unused or, worse, being dumped. We’re increasingly being prompted to pass our unwanted PCs but as far as I can see there aren’t any console recycling schemes. Yet both the Xbox and the Playstation 2 are just computers, and although they are shipped as dedicated games systems they can do other things. Sony provides an official Linux for the PlayStation 2, based on the Red Hat kernel, and it comes with a collection of libraries to let games developers use the specialised graphics hardware that makes it such a good gaming platform
If one of the modchip BIOSes will netboot, you can even toss out the failure-prone hard disk.
What you need to do is:
chip it so it will boot unsigned code (or get a signature)
Make a VGA adaptor out of an LM1881N, two capacitors, a resistor, the original video cable and a VGA lead
Replace two of the 5-pin el-bizarro USB connectors with standard USB sockets
Add a USB keyboard and mouse
If you're not netbooting it, install Linux (Mandrake from LE2005 onward ship an XboX ISO image, you can even install using a game controller as a mouse if your application doesn't need a keyboard and mouse (e.g. advertising display)
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What you need to do is: