RE: Twiddler gripeing and Re: Rebuilding wearable...

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What about the weight issue?  Right now, the Twiddler is quite light.
Adding electronics, batteries, etc... will increase the weight of the unit.

-Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Plumb [mailto:]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 1:28 AM
> Just had a thought.  One of the Bluetooth-enabled Gumstix just might fit
> inside a twiddler case.  I'll have to pull apart my v1.0 Twiddler and
> check when I get home next week (in the UK all this week).
> 
> In the Gumstix community there is a great need for more
> hardware/mechanical board-mounting options.  A "version 3" Twiddler may be
> just what's needed, especially if you combine it with something like the
> new thumbstix-gs.  It has Li-Ion battery connections, LCD connections
> (possibly for a simple character buffer display) and can be USB
> powered/charged, and has the obvious USB-device mode for plugging into
> host systems directly.
> 
> Andrew.
> 
> Thus spake Ralf Ackermann:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'll put instructions for making the Twiddler (both the serial first
> > version as well as the one with the PS/2 interface) connecting via
> > Bluetooth online in May (actually - it's just a matter of finding the
> > time).
> > On
> >  	http://www.iptel-now.de/HOWTO/WEAR_TOP/wear_top.html
> > you find instructions for the PS/2 => serial adapter (AVR 2313 based) -
> > and I'll just combine this with a BT module (either a version with an
> > ATmega128 (as used in BlueMP3 or BTNode) => can host a minimal BT stack
> or
> > a BT module that does serial port emulation on its own).
> >
> > If I look at my pages - most of these things were done in 2002 already -
> > it's just that university projects (not related to wearable computing)
> > occupy so much time that things do not step forward as fast as they
> could.
> >
> > best regards
> >   Ralf
> >
> >>
> >>> What about the Bluetooth Twiddler2?  Wasn't Handykey working on a
> >>> Bluetooth Twiddler?
> >>>
> >>> But where are the Bluetooth Twiddlers? I was promised Bluetooth
> >>> Twiddlers. I don't see any Bluetooth Twiddlers? Why? Why? Why?
> >>
> >
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