Hi On Aug 24, 2013, at 1:37 AM, David J Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi > > Pardon my interjection …. but. > > For a simple TBolt monitor, *any* OS is total overkill. If all you have is a > small / simple display - you can't put much up there. For a monitor you don't > have a keyboard / mouse / usb touchpad / Bluetooth presentation wand. Nothing > to do and nothing to control. One big loop and not a lot else will do the > trick with lots of time left over. If you want to go crazy, run one of the > free RTOS distributions that the semiconductor companies give away. Freescale > passes out MQX / MQX-lite. The others have similar "stuff". They all have way > more in them than this sort of application requires. > > Bob > ================================ > > Sounds like a job for the Raspberry Pi. Low-cost, low-power, has serial I/O, > and yet can still be programmed in C/C++ or Pascal/Delphi, can run a Web > server, so you can perhaps re-use existing code from another OS. Low-cost > displays available too. I'm using one of my RPi cards as a digital wall > clock - no keyboard, mouse etc., and can be accessed over the 'net if needed. > Not really. In order to get anything done on a Pi you need a high level OS. It's a very complex part. If the objective is a low power install, the display that the Pi runs will nuke your budget big time. You are using a school bus to haul around one student. Yes it can be done, for an efficient design it's not the way to go. Bob > David > -- > SatSignal Software - Quality software written to your requirements > Web: http://www.satsignal.eu > Email: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
