James Louis wrote: > This past CNC Workshop in Ann Arbor, Michigan had a small touchscreen EMC2 > controller on display at the Pico Systems booth. It used an interface called > "Touchy" and might be just what you're looking for, but it is not released > yet. > I liked it a lot. > > Not really all there yet. There are apparently about 5 touch screens that have been set up for the Beagle Board, most of them cost more than the Beagle. There is no real time RTAI package yet for the Beagle board, hopefully soon. Then, EMC2 has to be ported to the Beagle, hopefully that will not be a big deal, but it is a different architecture (non-X86) so there could be surprises.
I DID have touchy running on an old Gateway Profile 3 computer with a glass-plate touch screen taped to the front. The Keytec "Magic Touch" touch panels are Linux-compatible and can be put on any computer with an available serial port. The Profile 3 is an all-in-one computer, basically a laptop without the keyboard, the main board, hard drive, etc. all fits behind the LCD screen. This is a great package for installing inside a big machine pendant, you just clamp it where the old CRT went. The Profile 3 can be had with up to 1 GHz Pentium CPU, and the parallel port is totally compatible. USB, PC card slots and Ethernet are standard. There are later versions of the Gateway Profile line, some of these have the works in a big block in the base, not as good for big pendant retrofits. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sell apps to millions through the Intel(R) Atom(Tm) Developer Program Be part of this innovative community and reach millions of netbook users worldwide. Take advantage of special opportunities to increase revenue and speed time-to-market. Join now, and jumpstart your future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-atom-d2d _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
