Re: [iPAQ] wearable iPAQ?

"Michael C. Piantedosi" wrote:
>
> I'm in the process of converting my ipaq into a wearable as we speak, the
> twidder should be arriving today... and after that I was actually planning
> on trying to hack together a "wearable serial terminal". The reason for
> this being that I already plan on using the 2 pcmcia slots for storage and
> networking repectively, and I have some spare lcds I could use for the
> hud, I guess the challenge would be to get the video business working
> correctly... (Note: I only care about textmode in terms of a wearable, if
> I want to bother with a gui I can always just pull the ipaq out of my
> pocket or whatever) I figured that under the worst circumstances I could
> strap the ipaq to my arm or mount it on my chest or something... Oh, and
> when I get the twiddler working (this afternoon! crosses fingers...) I'll
> upload the compiled driver or something.

How are you planning to connect the peripherals? I assume you'll be
using some sort of display device (HMD?) and the twiddler as input.
Does the twiddler support serial I/O (I don't actually own one... yet.)
or are you going to try to hook it directly to one of the iPAQ expansion
ports? You say you're going to use it as a "wearable serial terminal"
but what are you using as the host/client? It sounds like you're
talking about using the iPAQ as the "server" and logging into it over
serial? What are you going to use to log into it to get your textmode
session? Seems like if you've got a serial HMD terminal, you'd just
want to use *that* as your wearable base unit. :)

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