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Build your own Itsy?
mgrennan writes "Compaq's development of the Itsy continues! The Western Research Lab (WRL) of Compaq is not only continuing their development of Itsy (a Linux Palm Top) they have even included links and source code on their site so you can build your own.
It would apear Itsy started life as an SA-1100 prototype for the ARM processor. With this board and the code from WRL you can do the same.
The groups latest added gismo to Itsy is Rock 'n' Scroll, a
user input method for Itsy that is based on tilting and
gesturing with the Itsy in the user's hand. As the user
tilts it from this neutral position on either or both axes, the display is scrolled. The tilt direction sets the scroll direction and the magnitude of the tilt sets the scroll speed. Small motions due to hand tremor and noise in the environment are filtered out so that scrolling is smooth and the user can easily stop scrolling. " Somebody build me one
while they're at it *grin*.
>> Let's all tell Compaq we want to buy them... Don't tell me a company would refuse to sell ?!
:-/
Seen how IBM sells OS/2 of late?
-- brandon s. allbery, sysadmin @ cmu electrical & computer engineering "Think, youth, THINK!"
oh yea, at a cost of around 3000 dollars. I have already tried to get one, for my Linux Digital Assistant project. It seems that they take great
stock in the value of their eval boards.
i am so very tired....
Ok I agree. You realy can't build an Itsy, but you can buy the ARM prototype board and download the Itsy source and start your own
design.
Maybe your not a hardware person.
There are 10 type of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
Ok, this is just downright cruel; it's year-end-bonus time, and I have some $ burning a hole in my pocket. I would buy one of these in an instant, just to play with it and see if I can think up new applications.
Just a word to the Compaq researchers and bean-counters: if you sell it, I _will_ buy it.
Jon
I think not...(*poof*)
a development board with no software: it's not their
field. The PLEB project is working on a similar thing,
a small SA1100 board for experimenters. For an Itsy in
your car, get an empeg.
The Itsy wouldn't be cheap either. Even if they made
them in the 1000-ish quantity I'd expect it'd be around
$1000 each: still interested in a PDA without ethernet,
software, which you have to re-flash every time you want
to update the code at this price?
Gullivers' Travels? You just described every human-inhabited place on earth.
--
Aaron Gaudio
"The fool finds ignorance all around him.
"Every man is a mob, a chain gang of idiots." - Jonathan Nolan, Memento Mori
I used to joke as a support staff person and hand someone an etch-a-sketch when their laptop broke. Imagine, with this new Rock-n-Scroll tech, it is possible now... Just shake your computer and blammo, new screen.
Just a thought.