[Wear-Hard] Eee-PC as wearable?

Brian Short brian.short at gmail.com
Wed Oct 1 14:56:14 EDT 2008


That's a great idea. It's small, cheap, and you could mod it down to a
very packable size.

Shouldn't a VGA signal be a VGA signal? Could you change the output
resolution to just fit whatever the MicroOptical is expecting?

Thanks,
-Brian

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:49 PM,  <kpj at sics.se> wrote:
> How about an Asus Eee-PC with USB keyboard and VGA screen?
>
> The box is small enough. Linux installed. No fans or disk
> motors. Sound on-board. 802.11 wireless LAN support.  And
> connector for external screen.
>
> Just add a HMD and a Twiddler.
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot make the MicroOptical recognize
> the VGA signal of the Eee-PC. And the battery time is not
> too impressive.
>
> BTW, the MicroOptical is hard to configure without good
> hardware support. It appears as if they expect(ed) you to
> use Microsoft Windows.
>



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