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PlayStation Touch Screen for Your Linux Box

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the fun-with-hardware-hacking dept.

hebertrich writes to tell us that IBM DeveloperWorks has an interesting article about how to modify a PlayStation LCD for use as a touch screen panel for your Linux box. From the article: "Historically, the lack of friendly interfaces has been an obstacle to making Linux® a commercially viable product for end users, but with available GUIs, that's yesterday's news. What's the next step in creating an easy-to-use Linux-based product for consumers? Imagine adding a user-oriented LCD touchscreen. A touchscreen facade can make back-end Linux applications very usable in such devices as custom digital media centers (either in the home or in automobiles), DVRs and PVRs, and even control interfaces for household robots."

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  1. Hmmm... by setirw · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if touchscreens such as this could function on ADC (Apple Display Connection), which integrates both DVI-I and USB into one plug... That way, a separate serial/USB cable for transmitting HID data wouldn't be necessary.

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  2. Interesting to see the responses here by FoamingToad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    given the amount of /.ers who were stating quite vehemently their intent to never buy any Sony products ever a couple of weeks back [Slashdot, passim].

  3. A bit expensive but ... by Ricochet · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I've been working with the Nokia 770 (http://www.nokiausa.com/770) and it's a nice small wireless (802.11b) ARM PC running Linux. It has a 800x400 touch screen that I'm comfortable with. It has a streaming music app, email, a browser (Opera) and a couple of other apps on it as well as storage for adding more. I plan on using it for my HA interface (running http://www.misterhouse.com/) so the browser is important. So far it works rather well and beats bringing a book into the bathroom for reading. :-) This will be used to replace my my 3COM Audrey, which is hardwired. If they can get the price down I think this device has a chance.

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  4. Simultaneous xservers on linux? by evilad · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I recently tried and failed to add a touchscreen to my media server. The stumbling block was finding a way to have a simultaneous xservers (Ubuntu Breezy x.org 6.8) running on different video cards. No matter what I do, only one will be active at a time (one per virtual console), and I'm forced to switch between them with the Alt-Fkeys.

    A little searching found the ancient Backstreet Ruby project, but there doesn't seem to be a way to do it with a modern kernel and xserver.

    Anyone managed to accomplish this recently?

  5. Why not spare yourself the agony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

    ...and throw your money on these linux guys http://damnsmalllinux.org/store/TFT_LCD? After you're done, THEN you decide whether the car or the house gets the lil box...