[GRLUG] RaspBerry Pi

Steve Romanow slestak989 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 27 14:52:46 EDT 2011


Is there a usb rs232 dongle available?
On Oct 27, 2011 2:50 PM, "Casey DuBois" <casey at grlug.org> wrote:

> The Bill Validator requires RS-232 so we need 1 of those.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
>> > That's the kind of device I wanted to use in the Kiosk.
>> > Thinking we're needing something a little larger with more ports.
>>
>> Ports requirements, IIRC, are:
>> * One(1) VGA port, or DVI-I and a DVI->VGA adapter
>> * One(1) USB port for One(1) RS-232 serial port for the touchscreen's
>> input (USB is the most convenient)
>> * One(1) USB port for the ticket printer.
>> * One(1) USB port for the cash reader.
>> * One(1) USB port, one(1) SATA port or one(1) IDE port for booting the
>> OS. (Unless we talk about netboot again)
>> * One(1) ethernet port for network access.
>>
>> That's minimum, and can even be worked downward a little with a USB
>> hub or expansion card. Anything else is gravy.
>>
>> I know Adobe Flash runs on Arm (it's running on my Xoom), but I don't
>> know if they have an Arm Flash plugin for Linux. So a low-power x86
>> processor would be ideal. AMD's low-power Bulldozer might even be
>> appropriate. What's the lowest wattage x86 processor around that can
>> handle Adobe Flash?
>>
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