I Agreed that other than to see if you can make it work it is not worth doing. If price is critical used POS terminal monitors are often available cheaply.
I believe that he wanted a 19-inch screen so maybe: https://www.amazon.com/Touch-Screen-POS-TouchScreen-Monitor/dp/B00G3OBLLO/ I have had a Monoprice 106959 17-inch monitor on my PathPilot (LinuxCNC derivative) system for years and it works great but the monitor appears to have been discontinued. > -----Original Message----- > From: Roland Jollivet [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2018 12:52 PM > To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) > Subject: [Emc-users] OT: 'touch' screen > > It's all probably not worth the schlep. > > Buying this would be a lot easier; > https://www.amazon.com/Asustek-15-6in-Wled-1366x768- > Vt168n/dp/B01B6JD7DA/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1543686577&sr=8- > 1-fkmr0&keywords=ASUS+VT168N > > > > On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 19:44, Gene Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Saturday 01 December 2018 10:17:29 Roland Jollivet wrote: > > > > > I've been thinking about how to implement a touch screen of sorts on a > > > 19" monitor. The TFT displays are too expensive for their size. > > > > > > Then I came across this; > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aOYc_GKTHQ > > > > > > Very interesting, and with more scanners and LED's it could be very > > > usable! Next is to explore how easy it is to drive them.. > > > > > With the ccd bars from a fairly modern scanner, you would have both in a > > unit but working with white light, not ir, and since both are in the > > same bar, one could theoreticly multiplex them for even better accuracy. > > But even the bars out of my brother mfc-j6920dw, would only give you 11" > > of active area, and I'm sure the white light would be a distraction in > > use, so one would have to make 2 bars of ir emitters, which could be > > made longer increasing the size of the working field at the expense of > > poor accuracy in the corners. 2 ccd bars end to end would solve that, > > giving 22" or more of scanable area vertically. How much $ would you > > have in getting those parts from brother? > > > > > > -- > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Emc-users mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
