James Davidheiser wrote: > (linuxfromscratch), because I'm a sick bastard. Everybody needs a hobby <VBG> > My design in progress is changing constantly, but I figure now's as good a > time as any to lay down my basic plan for my wearable and see what > everyone thinks: My design changes every 4 nanoseconds too, that's half the fun! > Core: MZ104 from tri-m. The power consumption kicks ass, its got barely > enuff power, I think, to squeeze out some MP3 playing capability. I dunno about mp3 but I think it will be fast enough to drive my LCD menus with Java and monitor my home sensors from SF ... (it may be too slow for mp3) > Network: Hmm, I'm still working on this one... I need the equivalent of > an orinico gold wavelan card, but I would prefer to see if I can get away > without adding a PCMCIA board. I'm trying to avoid pcmcia also. I'm sticking with ricochet for mobile net access and wired enet LAN for now (to save footprint), but I'd sure like to find some kind of serial/parallel/usb/cf wireless enet that could replace my pcmcia radio modem ... > Drive: Microdrive. I am still a bit confused, but from what I > understand, this can be connected to IDE ports as well as CF, with the > proper adaptor, right? Well afaik it's just an IDE drive in memory card form factor, so it should be adaptable to the IDE port. My adapter from ampro s/b arriving soon and I will verify this. I am expecting it to work. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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