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How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

The catch is that you would have to buy old hardware off ebay or somewhere, but it's plentiful and dirt cheap there. There's a package that's nearly abandonware on sourceforge called palmorb...

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... i've got recently two Matrix Orbital USB-displays (204-24-USB with 4 rows and 202-24-USB with 2 rows), which are the displays combined with two PIC-controllers, which have USB/RS232, some...

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... found the prices - 202 (2rows) around 70$, 204 (4 rows) around 100$ 8-)

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VDX Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... found the prices - 202 (2rows) around 70$, 204 > (4 rows) around 100$ 8-) Oh sorry, Jamaco here in the US had them, $99 I...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

I think that the palm could send GCodes from SD card, then the reprap (fitted with a bluesmirf or similar) receives the commands from bluetooth and prints.

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for $ 84 you can get a I2C colored ICD with touchscreen... that would be awesome to control the reprap! [www.sparkfun.com] but for status display i would use: for $15: [cgi.ebay.com] or this one: for...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

Another option would be a linux installed in a beagleboard... that board is veery powerful and can run a OS (Windows(?) or linux). [cgi.ebay.com] in this case you would need the beaglebord + the LCD...

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pda/cellphone are cheaper/better/faster because of scales of economy. i think that these portable machines are powerful enough already to download and process stl files, and process gcode. i think it...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

though you would have to port the code to the cellphone OS... It also would be very nice... but its not the easiest thing.

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i have a lot going on these days... it is easier to point what has already been done... I may show what i am porting to a pda soon. but it is just a concept.. besides why must I do the work? what...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

One of the cheapest, most complete options for a touchscreen is a stm32 primer (I, I & III) They include a arm processor a few outport pins, a small joystick, touchscreen, and so on.. I have one...

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ElectricMucus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > One of the cheapest, most complete options for a > touchscreen is a stm32 primer (I, I & III) > > They...

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I would get the sony if it falls into your budget for a screen, also if you dont have a head-unit.get the xenarc because its half the price and probably better quality since its vga and it also has...

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I just found this post, I know its old but I wanted to see if its still being monitored. I am very interested in this as I have two palm pilots. A zire 31 palm one and a newer color palm I think its...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

There is some lcd work going on. Touch screen control by fingers is possible with arduino hardware, the issue is with noise and the resolution needed for good quality and the issue with SD using most...

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Quoteadc needs to be spi, as most firmware and hardware only has those pins available. Not that I wish you or anyone more work, but that comes in nicely for the upcoming Gen7-ARM. The LPC1114FN28 has...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

the adc is done by a seperate chip on the daughter board. the adc is spi, the lcd is spi, and the sd is spi. there is no other way to have reliable adc signals and have the touch display work without...

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

Quoteso is 4 extra adc enough? If this makes the touch screen work, I'd say yes. Adding more extruders (temperature sensors) is a different task.

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Re: How about adding a LCD with touchscreen to the firmware for under $25?

ok so your just looking for lcd that is not dependent on host processor for adc?

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