RE: Cheap'ish Touch Screen device

["Dave McLaughlin" <dave_mclaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nice find.



If you were a little adverse to programming, you could develop software for
this quite easily in VB, C# or C++ as it runs Windows CE so you can use
Microsoft Visual Studio to write code for this little device.



If only for the fact I am not in the UK, I would get myself one of these.



In fact, hang on, as it runs Win CE there is a good chance that Homeseer
Touch will run on this saving any programming at all! Only downside is that
the resolution is a little low but it could be done. Is just a little over
QVGA. This is assuming the processor is ARM based which if looking at the
website, it should be ARM11. Perfect!!!!!



Dave.



From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
briview
Sent: 02 December 2009 18:25
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Cheap'ish Touch Screen device





Hi All

Just spotted this touch screen device from Maplin on the HotUKDeals site.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=286831

I thought it might have some HA uses as I'm still after something to report
weather, room temps, and X10 switch status etc. Does anyone have a view on
how this could be used compared with a USB based touch screen?

I'm reasonable happy that I could write some web pages to display but I'm
not a web developer so I'd probably have to make use of some pretty crude
refresh type mechanisms to update the page(s). Where as with a USB screen I
could run any PC based app.

Anyone been there and done that?

Cheers

Brian



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