Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 17:40:57 -0800 From: "Chuck T." <freebsdfan@hotmail.com> To: nathan@vidican.com, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: hardware requirements... any ideas? Message-ID: <F130LT2NkF6KOJB5qPZ000158d1@hotmail.com>
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Well, if you're willing to break some new ground you might take a look at the failed 3com Audry. It already has a touch screen and LCD along with 32mb of RAM, 16mb of flash, a serial port, sound in and out, compact flash socket and usb ports. They can be had for around $100 on ebay. The only problem is that it runs qnx and does not have full PC bios so no one has gotten FreeBSD or Linux to run on one *yet*. You can execute a properly formatted image from the compact flash by holding a button down at power up so in principle you could load PicoBSD that way. I'm working on getting PicoBSD to run on it, but it's a background task that I haven't put any cycles lately. For more information see http://www.linux-hacker.net or http://www.audreyhacking.com/ >From: "Nathan Vidican" <> >Reply-To: nathan@vidican.com >To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org >Subject: OT: hardware requirements... any ideas? >Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 19:48:08 -0500 (EST) > >Hey everyone, > > I was toying with the notion of a new project. I'm looking to build >a controller out of a P.C. which will have a small graphical touch- >screen interface. The system essentially needs to be a glorified web- >browser over a wireless ethernet connection. It will (eventually) be >tied into a home control system via a webserver it will connect to over >the wireless ethernet. The software isn't much the problem, I plan to >run a small copy of FreeBSD w/ X and Netscape, (which I'm hoping to get >on a flash disk... will use NFS over wireless lan if need be). > > What I do need a great deal of help with, is sourcing the right >hardware... at the right price. I will need a unit which is small in >size, (it's going to eventually be a tablet-like device; hand-held and >portable), runs off of DC power (as it will eventually be made to run >from batteries), and has the following: > >- At least one PCMCIA slot (for 802.11 interface card), >- Some sort of soundcard (to play MP3's mostly), >- Decent video capable of working with a laptop display (TFT - to be >taken from a dead laptop actually) >- A serial port for the touch-screen interface >- USB; nice...but not required >- a PCI slot for future expansion (eg PCI/IDE interface or something) >would also be nice... but is again not required > >If anyone has any ideas or suggestions I'm all ears. I'd like to find >as inexpensive as possible... aiming to find something < $250 US if >possible. I know there were similar such units spoken of on this list, >minus the audio/video/802.11, maybe if someone could pass the link for >those units back to me as well? > >Thanks all > >-- >Nathan Vidican >Nathan@Vidican.com >http://Nathan.Vidican.com/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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