On Mon, 2010-09-27 at 07:24 -0400, Kent A. Reed wrote: ... snip > In terms of fulfilling your requirements, are you thinking PDA because > it is a convenient packaging of display and input devices or because...? > > Regards, > Kent
At the risk of becoming too off topic, I'll describe my project. I did some research on 1x or infinity finders for telescopes. Here is an example: http://www.backyard-astro.com/equipment/accessories/telrad/telrad.html One nice thing about these is your eye can move, but the aiming image (cross hairs) and your target and telescope stay aligned. This is just like a Head Up Display: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display Then I got to thinking I could use a small LCD display as the aiming image and display the telescope aiming data from Alt-Az encoders along with the cross hairs. While I'm at it, I could install KStars and overlay a sky map of the area that I am pointing at. Then search the Internet for any appropriate music: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Planets and dynamically collimate... (feature creep?) So, I'm considering something with Linux, a small display (monochrome okay, will change backlight to red) and TTL I/O, (and sub $50, used on eBay). -- Kirk Wallace http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html California, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
