Re: [Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread Dean Hedin
Here's a 7" touch screen that does work in Linux http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.12561 And here is how you make it work http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:kiddshoptouchscreenunderxandros -Original Message- From: Colin Kingsbury [mailto:ckingsb...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 23,

Re: [Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread Dean Hedin
You need to go to the manufacturer's website to see if they have a Linux driver for their particular touch screen. X does support some touch screens natively, Microtouch and ELO etc.. It's hit or miss with some of these imports. And I don't see anything specific about drivers on lilliput's websi

Re: [Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread Jon Elson
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 reall

Re: [Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 03:21:19PM -0500, 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 ye

Re: [Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread James Louis
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. Jim -Original Message- From: Neil Ba

Re: [Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread Neil Baylis
Just wanted to mention an alternative, since you have an iPhone. There's a great app available for iPhone called touchOSC. It was built for using the iPhone as a controller for musical devices, such as synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, etc. It comes with a bunch of inbuilt control panels, as

[Emc-users] Compatibility with small touchscreens?

2010-08-23 Thread Colin Kingsbury
I'm looking at trying to build a homebrew version of a dedicated controller with an integrated keyboard, MPG, and touchscreen. On the touchscreens, I've been looking at some of the 7-8" units originally made for in-dash DVD players, Lilliput seems to be a common name for the hardware and I've read