On Thursday 20 January 2005 01:30 am, Roger Gonzalez wrote: > > any more information on your rideable? sounds intriguing > > Oh, just your basic PCM-5822 with a 10" transflective display, mounted in a > Marsee motorcycle tank bag, running a copy of Debian hacked down to fit on > a CF card, with a tiny water resistant wrist-sized keyboard about the size > of a dollar bill mounted to the strap. Some day I want to build a nice > clamshell case out of fiberglass so that I can actually bring it outside. > > After I got the hardware working, I started work on the software and got > distracted by some unrelated bright shiny thing for quite a while. Why does that always happen, my slackware booting from CF has sat on my desk for a year now doing nothing because I got distracted. > When I > got back to it, the CF card stopped booting. I intend to get back to the > project, but starting with the software first this time, since that takes > more work and can be implemented independent of wacky hardware. I also > need to figure out what to use for the GUI, since its in portrait mode. I > was going to use Qt since I read that it could be rotated, but my current > idea is actually to do the GUI in ActionScript as a Macromedia Flash app > and connect to a back end via an XML socket - if I need Emacs, I can always > flip to a console, its more important to me to be able to quickly create a > new UI than to use arbitrary X apps. > > -Roger > > Roger Gonzalez > mailto:> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wear-Hard mailing list >
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