Hello, I intend to build a low cost wearable computer based on an SBC such as Advantech's PCM-5822. While looking for one I stumbled across a very similar alternative called EM351 by Vox Technologies. It shares the same form factor as the 582x's and what seems like the union of their features (e.g. 4 COM ports, TV out, dual ethernet). The one thing it doesn't have is a PC/104 extension slot, which would have been handy for capturing video (using a PCMCIA adaptor, for example). One alternative I can use s to carry a second computer that will host a frame grabber and connect the two through the spare ehternet port, but that solution seems expensive in power and weight and I'd rather avoid it. A better solution might be some clever hack involving EM351's CompactFlash socket. CF video capture cards that I've found are restricted to QVGA resolution, but how about building a PCMCIA to CF card adaptor? >From what I understand the so called 'PCMCIA CF card readers' contain no active electronics and simply bridge over the difference in sizes and shapes. On the other hand, PCMCIA cards come in a veriety of bus widths and speeds, and it might very well be that the CF interface won't be able to handle the throughput a PCMCIA frame grabber produces. What do you think? Is this kind of hack feasible? Yair. _______________________________________________ Wear-Hard mailing listhttp://www.haven.org/mailman/listinfo/wear-hard
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