Hi, Forgive me if this sounds stupid or too old-fashioned. I spend ~100 minutes every day walking to and from work and would often like to be able to record some of the things I am thinking (like writing a letter to a friend - I can think what I will say, but then forget before I can write it down). I don't want to look unusual and I don't want to walk into lamposts or get hit by cars, so it seemed to me that rather than reading something I should listen to it. I'd like to be able to type on something in a coat pocket, so it would have to be small and one- handed. I've seen a microwriter (do they still exist?), but that's large and complicated. In the end I decided that something that records and plays back morse code would be sufficient. I have various ideas for the software (editing) and have built some hardware before (a long time ago - a Z80 based stepper motor driver). But I have no idea what is possible with current hardware (would I still need to blow my own EPROMS for example). Is there some low-power consumption chip that includes a CPU, memory, and some IO ports that can be programmed easily from a computer running Linux? Any comments welcome, Cheers, Andrew -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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