[Wear-Hard] Tiny Tiny computers

[Abe S.]

You may want to narrow your scope a bit. Most modern microcontrollers
are fast enough to generate a video signal and are computers. They are
not, however, the sort of full-function device that most people would
consider a wearable.

http://www.rickard.gunee.com/projects/video/sx/howto.php
http://www.riccibitti.com/dvm.htm
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/pic/pictock.html

Since most of these are available as tiny SMD parts, the smallest
computer of any type capable of outputting composite video is about
the size of the RCA jack used to hook it up.

Ok, so that was pedantic. However, it demonstrates that any board with
fast enough access to its GPIO pins can generate composite video.

-Abe

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Brian Kuriyama <yosh.five7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just for curiosity's sake, what's the smallest computer of any type capable
> of outputting composite video?
>
> Off the top of my head I somewhat see two options for small computers,
> Gumstix (running ARM cpu and linux), and on the other end of the spectrum,
> something like the Roboard Rb-100 which runs an x86 chip. I guess the first
> is catered towards general embedded applications and the second is catered
> towards robotics, but they both have some kind of display output option.
>
> Anyone care to share anything else regarding tiny tiny computers and their
> display options?
>
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