sunlight readable LCD

[Joseph Reeves]

My thoughts exactly Yorick.

I'd be very interested in this (I guess I should be! ;-) at the sort
of prices Marcus was talking about.

What's the technical investment required for this? I guess I should go
google "psp screen linux"...

Cheers, Joseph



2009/4/15 Yorick Moko <yorickmoko at gmail.com>:
> I'm not actually interested,
> but while you are modding: you could maybe also try to get a bigger
> battery in there?
> or two batteries in parallel?
> might be usefull for longer trips...
>
> y
>
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Marcus Bauer <marcus.bauer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> Joseph Reeves wrote on his blog about a bicycle app for the Neo [1].
>>
>> I have always wanted to add cycling / sports functions to tangoGPS but
>> as the LCD is mostly unreadable in sunlight I felt there is little use.
>> After trying it a couple of times on my bike I soon started to leave
>> the Neo at home.
>>
>> So I wonder about three things for better outdoor use:
>>
>> 1) How many of you would be interested in the following hardware
>> mods:
>>  * sunlight readable LCD
>>  * bigger LCD 3,5"+
>>  * new ruggedized case or rubber shell (including a mean to nicely fix
>> in on a bike?)
>>  * waterproof (substaintially more costs)
>>
>> 2) How much money would you spend on it? To give you an idea: the PSP
>> display with touchscreen can be bought on ebay for ~25$. A case may be
>> ~20-30$ for volumes of 100+.
>>
>> 3) Last question: are there hardware people interested in
>> this?
>>
>> Please reply here on list with your interest!
>>
>> Marcus
>>
>> [1]http://blogs.thehumanjourney.net/finds/entry/racing_myself_a_feature_request
>>
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