Hi everyone, Thanks for all the help with previous questions, I am just about ready to purchase the main components for my wearable. If anybody has any thoughs about my choice of components or sees anything that I have overlooked then please comment, otherwise I have just posted this for general interest. PCM-5822 is more or less my final choice at this stage from the reports I have received. The Advantech site says that the TV-Out only supports Windows 95/98/NT so I presumed it requires drivers. I'd be surprised if the composite did not just pumped out the same as the VGA signal regardless of video mode (text / vga). At least that's what the one on my ATI card does. In regards to the GT-270 the resolution isn't a scratch on genuine 640x480, but people were reading 640x480 on the M1 running 320x240 with increased font sizes weren't they? PLM-S700 was my initial choice, but from what I have read it sold for US$1000 or so (that's way out of my price range), nobody sells them in Australia anymore and I haven't seen any on eBay anywhere in the last two months. Daeyang Cy-Visor is way too expensive again, and from what I've seen it's huge! the official photos are very clever at never showing a profile view but there's no way I'd be able to make it look reasonable (let alone close to covert) for wearable use. GT-270 looks like about US$275.00. If I have to pump up the font sizes then so be it. NTSC resolution isn't too far off 640x480 is it? If the previous note on this topic was to warn me that I am going to end up squinting at this thing for the next year or two then please try and slap some sense into me again and I'll buy an LCD to strap onto my wrist or something... Final idea for the display is to get a GT-270 and test it out without modifying it. I -think- I should be able to get readable 640x480 out of it (even though its only TV resolution), but if all else fails I'll sell it on on eBay and look for better solutions (probably wrist mount LCD or similar). Australian Online Store with PCM-5822-DOA1 http://store.advantech.com.tw/australia/product.asp?pfid=460&mscssid=E7JXLT7 1GRCA9MHR4TQN6P4HW8500439 AUD$894.00 = US$475.75 US Online Store with PCM-5822-DOA1 http://www.advantech.com/usstore/product.asp?pfid=460&mscssid=GXVT9BMUKDSR2J NV00SHR0XAJDK2EUPB US$390.00 Australian Online Store with PCM-3112-0000 http://store.advantech.com.tw/australia/product.asp?pfid=190&mscssid=BNVTS9R X7RN39PVP2WC7VS6PPH9H9EP0 AUD$387.00 = US$205.83 US Online Store with PCM-3112-0000 http://www.advantech.com/usstore/product.asp?pfid=190&mscssid=AHWK9BMUKDSR2J NV00SHR0XAJD8M5V9B US$175.00 Assuming I buy both the PCM-5822 and the dual PCMCIA PC/104 card (price difference between brands for the PCMCIA is minimal so might as well make them both Advantech), there's a difference of US$116.58 betweem getting them here and in the US. Adding a SODIMM and perhaps a CompactFlash card would justify making out a money order and paying for registered airmail but unfortunately I don't have any friends / relatives in the US so I'll buy them here. I have some basic electronics knowlege and hooking up a regulator shouldn't be any trouble, I've never previously been concerned with the efficiency of them though. I plan to run it off a single 7.2V battery so I'll look out for the Datel UNS-5/3-D12. >From what I read InfoLithium cells are the only choice for wearable batteries. They are pretty expensive, I'll only be able to afford one. I had a look on eBay and there are millions new and used available (not one in Australia of course) although I can't tell what the difference between the versions / models are. Speech recognition was high on the priority list, I didn't think the CPU time would be a concern, but I'll have to enquire about the 300Mhz version. Has anybody used any distribution of Linux on these advantech PCM-5822 boards? Are drivers available for the TV-out, sound and video cards (and pcmcia?) etc...? Can't see the Cisco 340 Aerolan stuff anywhere online in Australia, I suspect a few phone calls would reveal it somewhere. On eBay there's a kit with a Proxim RangeLan PCMCIA card and base station which support the 11mbps speed. I'm looking at around US$250 for that (I presume the Cisco equivalent would be similarly priced). PCMCIA to PCMCIA wireless ethernet isn't much use. I don't own a laptop and probably won't anytime soon (definitely not if I lash out on all this gear). I will live with Cat5 for the moment, maybe wireless later. http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1267792885 I'll add a notebook hard drive to it. No floppy / cdrom or others of course. Thanks, Nick -- 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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