[GRLUG] RaspBerry Pi

[Michael Mol]

The HDMI cable doesn't carry an analog signal, so you'd need an active
converter device to render the HDMI data to a buffer and retransmit as
VGA. If the screen has HDMI support already, that's different, and
great.

I like the SD card slot for a hard drive, too, but it's still
important how large a card a given board supports. (And this board is
Arm, which won't easily work for our needs. I don't want to trust an
open-source Flash implementation, as they're not completely
compatible.)

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Casey DuBois <casey at grlug.org> wrote:
> I Like the SD card slot for Hard Drive and yes you can go from HDMI back to
> VGA.
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 2:50 PM, megadave <megadave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hrm.. all taht USB can be hubbed. And this uses an SD card slot as its
>> "hard drive", so no need for IDE or SATA.. And it has ethernet.
>>
>> The only issue might be the video - can you get from HDMI to VGA? I've
>> never used HDMI, so dont know much about it. What other video inputs
>> does that touchscreen have?
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 14:45, 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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