Just wanted to mention an alternative, since you have an iPhone. There's a great app available for iPhone called touchOSC. It was built for using the iPhone as a controller for musical devices, such as synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, etc. It comes with a bunch of inbuilt control panels, as well as the ability to define your own control panels.
I have a plan to use it to control my laser machine, which runs with EMC. I have some prototype code to receive the UI events from touchOSC, but have not integrated anything into EMC yet. There's a public domain C library that is widely used for sending and receiving OSC protocol, called "liblo" and that what I'm using initially. Ultimately, my laser application will be written in Common Lisp, so I will probably abandon liblo in favor of a lisp library. Anyway, for controlling music devices, it works very well. I have no doubt that it will also work for some EMC systems, depending on the particular needs. Neil On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Colin Kingsbury <ckingsb...@gmail.com>wrote: > I'm looking at trying to build a homebrew version of a dedicated controller > with an integrated keyboard, MPG, and touchscreen. On the touchscreens, > I've > been looking at some of the 7-8" units originally made for in-dash DVD > players, Lilliput seems to be a common name for the hardware and I've read > about touchkit as being the main driver for using these 4/5-wire > resistive-interface screens with Ubuntu. There seems to be a choice of > serial and USB interfaces. > > Before I go out and buy a bunch of hardware that doesn't play well, does > anyone have any words of wisdom on what I should or shouldn't look at? For > reference, this is the sort of unit I'm thinking about: > > > http://cgi.ebay.com/Lilliput-EBY701-NP-C-T-7-VGA-Touch-Screen-1-Year-Warr-/300444259217?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0 > > * And yes, I realize a 7" screen will have lower resolution than my iPhone > 4... I'm looking to build a panel with illuminated modal switches and > generally see about moving some stuff off the screen. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program > Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users > worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and > speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > -- http://www.pixpopuli.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
