Love to see this repurposing. My first experience with Chromebooks was after a workshop at Teardown '23 here in Portland, where I attended a session on using the MrChromebox stuff. I eventually ended up using the knowledge to encase Chromebooks in custom-built cabinets for use as display screens and GPIO interfaces for a science festival educational exhibit on electromagnetism and speakers.
The machines are rugged (the spec I use is "able to be dropped on concrete from waist high and to have a full soda dumped in the keyboard") and once running Linux, fast and light. And I got them for $50 a piece!
https://justinmiller.io/projects/catchthewave/
The machines are rugged (the spec I use is "able to be dropped on concrete from waist high and to have a full soda dumped in the keyboard") and once running Linux, fast and light. And I got them for $50 a piece!