This might seem off-topic but please Indulge me for a moment while I talk about one my aspirations (now dead). I have a Sharp EL-6890 personal organizer, or rather had one. The gadget had 256kb of flash and a decent display screen and what set it apart from the Casio organizers was that it had a com port.
About a year back, I had this wonderful idea to make something useful out of it. To make it so that you plug the device to the serial port of your computer and get a login prompt on the device! How cool would that have been, especially because it hadn't been done before. Anyways, I open the thing only to find that the top of all chips (two big ones representing probably the processor and memory) had been fused (probably custom chips inside).. Yeah probably its an overkill to do blinking lights.. Thanks Sharad Birmiwal On 7/25/07, vivek khurana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- Sharad Birmiwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > I would like to start with blinking lights, display > > drivers, any and all > > trivial things that got me (and you?) started with > > programming? I wanted to > > write dedicated applications, program the flash, and > > execute. It's hard to > > justify this line of thinking. May be it came to me > > first. Any how, if you > > are suggesting using pentiums (which, as far as I > > understand, you are), what > > can I do with them (insert suggestings here)? I > > don't want to boot linux on > > As far as i can understand you need to build some > kind of automation circuit. X86 boards will definitely > be overkill for such device. I think you need a > microcontroller based board. Such boards are easily > available in Lajpat Rai market. > > > it. And I also don't want to boot any other OS (I > > think this is partly > > inspired by reading Con Kolivas's interview last > > night [ > > http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas]). > > Gives 404 error. > > regards > VK > > Engineers normally have problem with every solution. If not they have a > solution in search of a problem. > > Disclaimer > The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The > distinction is yours to draw... > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user > panel and lay it on us. > http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 > > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
