Build or buy. That’s the question. I think I’ll start small. I’ll start working on my Beaglebone while the Wif studies. I can plug the Beaglebone into the tv and go from there. Then, it’ll be updating. Next, build the keyboard this weekend. Either way I want a smaller, more me keyboard. Do I want to to shred a game controller for the “mouse”? Figure I have at least a free game controllers that haven’t been used this decade. I guess this leaves the kicker. How do I want to do the screen and battery?
The screen really leaves me tempted to find a commercial solution. They’re not optimized for mobile, but oh well. Option two, in Captain Lazy realm, would be to grab one of the controllers off of eBay. The advantage of this would be I could look at ways to reduce the price, in terms of power, of the backlight. Option three, which shouldn’t be on the table at this time would be driving the pins directly, or using an FPGA, with a salvaged LCD.
After all that, add up everything and add the juice.
Peter's stuff.