Damian Johnson:
I think the project will get more interest and attention from more experienced (and busy) Tor developers once the "broken, does not turn on" type problems are fixed; at that point a more formal design/review iteration on specific device configurations and functionality can take place.
Hi ficus. I spoke with Runa on irc and it sounds like this project is pretty much mothballed at the moment. You're certainly welcome to hack on it, but be aware that it doesn't really have a maintainer at the moment.
Argh. The project isn't mothballed. I'm the maintainer.
We're currently blocking on a web interface and regular tor builds of 2.3.x for ARM with tor-fw-helper enabled. I've also been writing a number of core utilities to replace commonly vulnerable and crappy services that such a device needs. The work on tlsdate is almost entirely directed at helping set the system time on Tails and on Torouter.
As is tradition for open source projects, you're certainly welcome to fork it. Also, we have several other things listed on the projects page that are being far more actively developed (if you'd like to work with one of us)... https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#Projects
Please disregard this - you're welcome to do all kinds of stuff but this, like a rain dance, isn't likely to result in the best results...
Shameless plug: I'm certainly more than happy to have help if python related stuff strikes your fancy. ;)
The build of Torouter that I have running includes your arm controller. :)
All the best, Jake