OooOOooh! teh pritty! I’ve temporarily rooted my Nook Color to run the latest version of Android from microSD using the following instructions: [ROM][CM7] [v1.3] Size-agnostic SD Card image and CM7 installer for SD Cards. – xda-developers. It’s a bit slow.
Perhaps the hardest part was getting this screenshot. I got it using the Android SDK ddms tool, which took some hitting with a virtual Stillson wrench to get going. If, on OS X, the command adb devices returns a blank list, you will need to add the Nook’s USB vendor ID to the ~/.android/adb_usb.ini config file. Stop the server (adb kill-server), then enter the following command:
echo 0x2080 >> ~/.android/adb_usb.ini
then restart the adb server (adb start-server). adb devices should return something like:
List of devices attached 2010830023232004 device
and now all tethered Android joy can be yours.
It was actually easier to just go ahead and root the thing properly with the instructions here: http://www.lockergnome.com/media/2011/07/17/root-nook-color/
You get to keep all your proprietary B&N stuff to play alongside regular Android apps. Quite fun.