[GRLUG] RaspBerry Pi

[Casey DuBois]

I was mistaken, HDMI to VGA is looking to be a challenge...


On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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