Microtouch

[Shawn Rutledge]

With an Atmel it sounds like a dancing bear to me; it has so little
memory that you basically have to use it only for fixed purposes, like
the games they show.  No dynamic languages or possibility of
downloading much content.  And also no GPU.

On 8 February 2012 14:29, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE)
<John.Gay at ge.com> wrote:
>
>>On 02/07/2012 10:13 AM, Gay, John (GE Energy Services, Non-GE) wrote:
>>>> Subject: Microtouch
>>>>
>>>> Just spotted on: http://blog.p2pfoundation.net
>>>>
>>>> Microtouch - The ultimate AVR-based iPhone killer!
>>>> http://www.ladyada.net/products/microtouch/
>>>>
>>> <SNIP>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know how old this is? I've got ~$100 ready to buy it they
>
>>> get more in stock. The page says 3-5 days, but not when it was last
>>> updated.
>>> I hope the first batch wasn't the only batch. I'd really like to play
>
>>> with a<$100 tablet.
>>It looks like it was originally announced a little over a year ago (Jan
> 27, 2011.) http://www.adafruit.com/blog?s=microtouch is the blog search
> for posts related to >the microtouch.
> Now I'm confused as to whether to get to $90 microtouch with it's cute
> touch screen and pocket size on an 8-bit microcontroller, or wait and
> get a raspberryPI for $35 and full Linux, but needs a TV for display???
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