On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Marcus Wolschon wrote: > I wonder: Has anybody in this list ever > thougth about not using an SBC but to > hack an all-in-one subnotebook? That's my current plan. At the moment my "main" machine is a trusty old Tosh Libretto 50CT (with Linux naturally). A friend is selling me his 100CT which will then free up my 50CT for hardware hacking into a wearable. I think what I'll probably do first is *carefully* remove the 50CT's screen and keyboard and hack some sort of arm (limb, not CPU) based text I/O as HMD's just don't seem to be cutting it at realistic price points. The libby's sound output works under Linux but it has no sound input (though one might be able to be hacked in IIRC). The 50CT has a single type 2 PCMCIA slot so that'll do nicely for wireless LAN, Ethernet or dial up connectivity. Biggest problem with the libby is that the standard battery that I have only lasts about 1.5 hours _and_ it doesn't charge the battery when plugged into the mains unless the machine is powered down. Maybe losing the TFT display will extend that battery life a little but its still not much. Might need to consider some sort of external belt pack that pretends to be the mains supply if I want to last for a whole working day (or do shorter working days. Hmmm... :-) ). Anyway, this is still very much on the drawing board as I'm not going to start doing anything until I have the 100CT running smoothly. I've also got to consider what I need the wearable for - it might turn out that my requirements are actually best dealt with using one of those natty M100 Palm Pilots that everyone else round here seems to have now. Tatty bye, Jim'll -- 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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