Another possible UI for Charleston

[John Teller]

I was thinking of its use as a simple DAC and display.  Perhaps it is 
too low powered for the more sophisticated modes, but many of the other 
options put forth are a lot more pricey.  An 8 GB iTouch is about $175 
discounted, but I don't know if its USB can be pressed into service for 
this purpose...

---JST


Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> The Chumby is a little weak under the hood (350 MHz ARM9, 64mb SDRAM,
> 64mb flash).  This is noticably slower than my iPhone, half the RAM,
> and a couple of orders of magnitude less storage.
>
> That's not to say it's a deal killer, but i'm curious as to your
> vision, beyond "use the usb interface".  It'd probably be OK if we
> were able to migrate a lot (as in almost all) the functionality onto
> the Nexys2 board and have the Chumby be responsible for just UI
> functions and D/A conversion.  We're miles from being able to do that
> though...  and frankly, there are parts of the rx chain that we would
> rather keep in a procedural language on a cpu rather than in an fpga.
>
> -r
>
>
> John Teller <jsteller at spottydog.us> writes:
>
>   
>> I was thinking more like using the USB interface, as the Nexys board
>> also has one.
>>
>> ---JST
>>
>> Alex Fraser wrote:
>>     
>>> Could you hallucinate a little more about these interesting devices?
>>> Would you hook it up to a processor sort of using it as a terminal?
>>>
>>> John Teller wrote:
>>>       
>>>> It's an open source, open hardware internet device.  But it does
>>>> come with a serial port, USB & WiFi.  The classic is $200.00, but
>>>> the new smaller version is half that.
>>>>
>>>> https://store.chumby.com/
>>>>
>>>> http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?cat=6
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