From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jun 16 22:54:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from sasami.jurai.net (sasami.jurai.net [63.67.141.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D2E37B565 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 2000 22:54:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id BAA00850; Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:54:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:54:00 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: Nate Lawson Cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LCD panel/buttons In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Nate Lawson wrote: > I am working on an embedded system and was curious what people commonly > use for an LCD display and button panel. Whistle (whistle.com) seems to > have a good setup and uses FreeBSD. I've also looked at the USB stuff > (ActiveWireInc.com) and it's a bit pricey for per-unit volume. Any > suggestions? I need probably two lines of 20 characters, alphanumeric. http://www.matrixorbital.com/ RS232 and I2C > Also, we hope to add an IR remote. I was looking at the keyspan.com > USB unit that maps IR to keystrokes. This seems like a good thing but > it's also a bit pricey. Has anyone used the IR port on PC > motherboards to have a universal remote device for FreeBSD? Any other > suggestions would be great. Seems like there should be some I2C solution you could use. -- | Matthew N. Dodd | '78 Datsun 280Z | '75 Volvo 164E | FreeBSD/NetBSD | | winter@jurai.net | 2 x '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,pmax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | This Space For Rent | ISO8802.5 4ever | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message