Re: [jornada] Jornada 710/720 Lateral Thinking.

Hey.
IMHO a pretty bad idea. Replacing the internals with custom parts
means a lot of wiring, eg. the cf- and pcmcia-slots. Also, I didn't
see a graphics adapter, nor a keyboard controller at that site.
I'd also make a statement that the required gumstick modules won't
fit inside a 700-series jornada.

Cheers.
Otto Waltari.

> Hello all,
>
> I have long followed the development of linux on the 720, and am glad
> that it is working, congratulations to all who have worked on it!
>
> I am one of many who do not have a flashboard (and yes I would like
> one!! ;) ).
>
> The purpose of this post is to ask... Rather than struggle to get a
> manufacturer for the flashboards, how hard would it be to interface a
> gumstix board to the screen and keyboard? Look www.gumstix.com these
> boards are literally the size of a stick of gum - we've been using them
> for a project at uni. My idea is to replace the 720 internals with one.
> They already run linux, their I/O is well documented, it would 'upgrade'
> the 720 to a 400Mhz Xscale and increase the ram. You could have
> bluetooth, use the gap in the case that has the modem socket as a
> network socket with one of their addon boards, add a sound board, and
> probably still have room for more! The only trouble would be interfacing
> to the keyboard and screen.
>
> What do people think?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gav.
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Received on Thu Mar 31 2005 - 07:16:41 EST