[Wear-Hard] Eee-PC as wearable?

[kpj at sics.se]

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?

On Wed, October 1, 2008 20:56, Brian Short wrote:
| That's a great idea. It's small, cheap, and you could mod it down to a
| very packable size.

Yep. In fact the package is quite wearable as-is. You just need a big
pocket to store it in.

First mod would be to turn off hibernation when the lid is closed.
In software, I guess.

The machine is rather weird for a Linux due to its "user friendliness"
(the web page show two children using one) but you can start xterm,
and then it's a normal Linux). With a rather small screen, though.
This is written on an Eee-PC, BTW.

Secondly, better batteries would be a requirement for a wearable.

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

MicroOptical supports the VGA signal until X Window System comes up.
Then the image blanks and no fiddling with any of the controls will
make it show anything.

I have had the same problem with MicroOptical HMD with other VGA cards
as well.

Maybe time to look for a new HMD?