Re: Cheap Control Panels ?

["Michael Van Wesenbeeck" <michael.van.wesenbeeck@xxxxxxx>]

Has anyone thought about using a gameboy? or GBA (gameboy advance), they don't have a touchscreen.  I know their are developer-sites for the ga= meboy.
They are programmable in C (AFAIK). Don't know if there are solutions to networking them.

Just a thought...

Michael

----- Original Message -----
From: "Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2002 7:16 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Cheap Control Panels ?


> I've been searching around trying to find some epods or fuji's
> to act as "control" panels in each room. The idea being that=
> instead of installing volume controls/light switches and any
> number of other local control devices I could have one "soft"= ;
> panel in each room that could act as a programmable interface
> to all HA and Audio stuff. Also means that because the control
> is central (i.e. the panels are just display devices) I could
> have better control .. for example if someone left the volume
> turned up in a different room I can turn it down/off from the
> room I'm currently in, or have the HA server turn off and reset
> the volumne in every room at midnight etc. Anyway the point is
> can I find any touch sensitive panels.. no.. well not a cheap
> enough price anyway. (I've got a maximum of 13 rooms and two
> hallways to do.. so the cheaper the better !) I saw in Dixon's
> today that they are selling some PalmTop handheld organiser/pc
> for =A399 each...since it has a touch sensitive screen and
> (presumably) is programmable, I wondered if it would be possible
> to stuff one into a case to mount in the wall and use a piece of
> cat5 as a simple serial cable back to node0..
>
> ..anybody ever done anything like this before ? any comments ?

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