[CoLoCo] Beagleboards and hairbrained ideas

[Joey Stanford]

I'd go with

A) a Panda Board  using HDMI.  They have a project for this
http://pandaboard.org/content/panda-tablet

B) gumstick with a touchscreen   http://www.gumstix.com/store/catalog/packs.php

And run Linaro (linaro.org).  Linaro is the upstream of Ubuntu on ARM
and we (yeah I work for them now) specifically do this stuff :-)

Joey



On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 15:06,  <mkass at numericalgeo.com> wrote:
> I actually not only got permission from the wife for this, I got resounding
> support.  Here's my desire:
> I would like to have a beagleboard running Ubuntu attached to a 7"
> touchscreen monitor.  Why?  Well I want to build it into the wall in my
> kitchen so that the wife can have recipes, internet, hulu, audio control,
> etc.  If this is successful I'll do it in other places in the house as
> well.  So I have several questions:
> 1. Can Ubuntu on the Beagleboard support a touchscreen, and are there
> *shudder* ipad style on-screen keyboard solutions that can be had?
> 2. How full-featured is Ubuntu on the Beagleboard?
> 3. Has anyone done something like this and has words of wisdom?
> 4. Does anyone want to play when it comes time to set this up?  I think a
> beer/bbq/beagleboard build would be in order...
> 5. Does anyone have a suggestion for the touch screen (the proximus is the
> only one I found after a short search)?
> http://beagleboard.org/project/Ubuntu/
> http://elinux.org/BeagleBoardUbuntu
>
> (I'm not necessarily attached to Ubuntu for it--Android might be a good
> solution too, but I don't know how to develop in the Android environment
> whatsoever).
> Oh, and the nerd in me wants a realistic, animated, Star Trek themed screen
> saver (From say movies 4-6, like is always on the screens in the
> background).  But that's a guilty desire.
>
> Cheers!
> Andy
>
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