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Project Seeks To Build Inexpensive 9-inch Monitor For Raspberry Pi

Posted by timothy on from the some-assembly-required dept.

angry tapir writes "A Kickstarter project is aiming to bring an inexpensive 9-inch portable monitor to the popular US$25 Raspberry Pi PC, which comes without a keyboard, mouse or monitor. The "HDMIPi" will include an LCD panel that will show images at a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. Computers can be hooked up to the monitor via an HDMI controller board that can be wired to the LCD. The display is being made by Raspi.TV and Cyntech."

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  1. Re:Gee, they're going to build an ARM-based comput by dido · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How many GPIO pins does your ARM tablet have by the way? I sometimes wire wrap discrete components and sensors and stuff to the ones on my Raspberry Pi and write software to drive them.

    The Raspberry Pi isn't just a cheap ARM-based PC. An important part of its vision is to bring back the spirit of hacking, both software and hardware, that used to be possible in the old computers of the 1980s. This has become very difficult to do on modern x86 PCs, and is all but impossible on mobile devices. The people who bash the Pi these days tend to forget that part for some reason.

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  2. Re:Gee, they're going to build an ARM-based comput by citizenr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unfortunately - it isn't the Pi screen everyone wants. The thing people are screaming for is the one the Pi folks have promised us - the DSI screen.

    we dont even need DSI screen, just DSI driver

    just like we need UNIVERSAL CSI driver, not that binary blob garbage locked to one module crap they ship with camera.

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  3. Re:Gee, they're going to build an ARM-based comput by rdnetto · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A port expander is *not* the same thing as GPIOs - it means you incur the delays associated with doing things over USB/I2C/etc. Maybe that's ok if all you want to do is flash some LEDs or turn on a relay, but for timing constrained applications, that's not feasible.

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  4. Re:Gee, they're going to build an ARM-based comput by msobkow · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Clearly you've never programmed bare metal as we did in the days of the Commodore 64, TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore PET, etc.

    It was *fun* back then. There wasn't even a debounced keyboard driver for most of those machines. You had to map the bits of the IO ports to individual keys. :)

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