Re: Touchscreen PCs back on Ebay

["Matthew Norman" <mafiu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Was it the AST-065?  whats the us company that sells them?

Maf
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McLaughlin" <dave@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2004 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Touchscreen PCs back on Ebay


> Hi Rob,
>
> I used a 6.5" TFT display made by NEC. There is a company in the
US
> still selling them cheap. New price is about £150 each from Sunrise
> Electronics in the UK.
>
> They are a digital input panel so won't hook up to a standard PC but
any
> of the embedded single board PC's will work and quite a few now are
> running 800Mhz+ processors. There is even VIA based boards out there
too
> at around the £200 price range.
>
> Check out this link to my website.
>
> http://www.embeddedcomputer.co.uk/Projects/MP3_Player/mp3_player.html
>
> As you will see, I created a neat fold up LCD housing from a plastic
> enclosure and the same type of hinges used in laptops. It folds up
under
> the kitchen units to keep SWMBO happy. A bit like the ICE box but at a
> fraction cheaper :o)
>
> I used a NX Geode based SBC which I won on eBay. It runs Windows 98
and
> is very stable as I only have the 2 applications working on it all the
> time. Plays MP3's a treat but you do notice the machine slow down
> slightly, but not that it matters too much.
>
>  I have updated the software since the pictures where taken and added
> quite a few new features.
>
> Dave...
>
> Rob Mouser wrote:
>
> > Thanks Dave
> >
> > You've got me interested :-)
> > So what TFT are you using behind these units?
> > What PC?
> > Have you mounted all this in wall?
> >
> > So many questions...???????
> >
> > Rob
>
>
>
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