Author Topic: Touchscreen LCD fully integrated computers (Read 9588 times)

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #40 on:** October 09, 2007, 03:26:09 pm »

good idea on the laptop charger, assuming we could find a pinout for power. The monitor/computer alone is only about 25 lbs, and the other 75 lbs is in the cart and batteries. Wonder if I could put all the batteries from these together and build a Prius? Or maybe just one hell of a power wheels car.

ElfShotTheFood · « **Reply #41 on:** October 09, 2007, 03:59:12 pm »

these things are here in jersey!!!
I'm definitely interested. one for a mp3 player, and another maybe for a point of sale system for my dads restaurant.

MikeQ · « **Reply #42 on:** October 09, 2007, 04:08:08 pm »

Quote from: USSEnterprise on October 09, 2007, 02:51:36 pm

but finding a longer cable to go between monitor and computer would likely be a nightmare

The monitor connector is probably an LVDS connector. It is a standard interface used in laptops. You could probably find or make a cable.

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #43 on:** October 09, 2007, 06:06:23 pm »

Quote from: MikeQ on October 09, 2007, 04:08:08 pm

Quote from: USSEnterprise on October 09, 2007, 02:51:36 pm
but finding a longer cable to go between monitor and computer would likely be a nightmare

The monitor connector is probably an LVDS connector. It is a standard interface used in laptops. You could probably find or make a cable.

Basically, it almost looks like DVI, but it isn't, since it carries the video and touchscreen data accross one cable

Kaytrim · « **Reply #44 on:** October 09, 2007, 06:13:26 pm »

How about some

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #45 on:** October 09, 2007, 06:25:06 pm »

I'll see if I get to it. I need to finish my Van De Graff tonight and I have a good deal of homework. Tomorrow, I'll get a pic of the connector.

MikeQ · « **Reply #46 on:** October 09, 2007, 07:25:14 pm »

Get a picture of the motherboard connector for the LCD / touch screen. There are some Mini ITX boards with LVDS / Touch Screen integrated. I'd be interested in seeing what they are using.

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #47 on:** October 09, 2007, 10:19:47 pm »

Well, I have the whole thing running on my dining room table, sans the 60 pound cart and the 10 pound batteries. Once the batteries are removed, the power supply is relatively lightweight. Maybe 35 lbs total shipping weight. The two 12v sealed lead acid batteries add about 10 lbs, and, if new and fully charged, will supposedly run the system for 14 hours. The audio, according to what I saw in device manager, is AC'97 based. The video is based on S3. LAN is Realtek. Once I get a HDD hooked up tomorrow, and hopefully install the full Windows XP, I'll submit an update.

heffe2001 · « **Reply #48 on:** October 10, 2007, 08:45:07 am »

Happen to know how much free space is left on the flash drive that is installed on the machines? It'd be pretty easy to connect in to my network and just run the juke software from flash (or network really, so it'd work either way), especially with the ability to drop a wireless network card in one of the PCMCIA slots...

Shipping of those units with batteries (but without the stands), via UPS shoudn't be outrageously expensive (assuming a total weight of 45 pounds). Residential was less than 20, Business address was around 15 (that was to NC where I live anyways). I'd expect just the monitor/powersupply would be more like 15/12 for Res/Business.

igboo · « **Reply #49 on:** October 10, 2007, 10:03:10 am »

Count me in for two as long as they're in the $100 or less range. I'll even come get 'em.

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #50 on:** October 10, 2007, 11:19:23 am »

the flash drive is read only; they are meant to be used as wireless terminals.

heffe2001 · « **Reply #51 on:** October 10, 2007, 01:26:11 pm »

Guess I could always get a IDE CF adapter, and do it that way

. Wonder if I could use the XP Embedded stuff I have (never used it tho), and make a new image for the device with whatever juke software installed? Although a small laptop HD would probably be easier, just not quite as fast at booting. Would probably be MUCH faster on a drive tho (swap file & all if using a regular XP install). Is the IDE connector on it a regular sized one, or one for a 2.5" drive?

ElfShotTheFood · « **Reply #52 on:** October 10, 2007, 01:36:52 pm »

the flash drive is removable? is there possibly a read-only switch on it? maybe inside the casing?

how big is the motherboard? itx size hopefully.

can you access the bios on it?

i wonder if it can boot from a usb flash drive.

does it have a full set of ports? usb, parallel, serial, ps2?

Kaytrim · « **Reply #53 on:** October 10, 2007, 02:13:13 pm »

According to the link he gave us earlier:

Quote

It comes standard with a 10/100 BaseT NIC, (1) PS/2 keyboard port, (2) Type II or (1) Type III PC Card slot, (4) serial ports and (2) standard USB ports. Video capability is provided by a VT8606 Savage4 AGP4x Graphic 8/16/32 MB frame buffer using system memory and a dual 110 MHz LVDS interface. It has an VT82C686A/B built-in sound controller, which is an Intel AC97 compatible audio system with Sigmatel CODEC; it is compatible with Windows Sound System and SoundBlaster.

EDIT****
I did a little digging with google and came up with the manuals. Follow this link and go down to the medical displays. The PDF manuals for the Invitium devices are there.

TTFN

USSEnterprise · « **Reply #54 on:** October 10, 2007, 02:53:03 pm »

Quote from: ElfShotTheFood on October 10, 2007, 01:36:52 pm

the flash drive is removable? is there possibly a read-only switch on it? maybe inside the casing?

how big is the motherboard? itx size hopefully.

can you access the bios on it?

i wonder if it can boot from a usb flash drive.

does it have a full set of ports? usb, parallel, serial, ps2?

Flash is removable. I saw no such switch.

Motherboard is bigger than mATX

Yes, BIOS is fully accessable

I believe you can boot from USB, since it will recognize a USB CD-ROM in the BIOS

Has 4 serial, 2 ps/2, 2 USB, 2 sound, 1 NIC

ElfShotTheFood · « **Reply #55 on:** October 10, 2007, 03:51:43 pm »

cool, looks like i should find that bootable usb flash drive that has advancemame on it.

does it have a secondary ide channel?

maybe try putting the flash in another computer's secondary ide port and see if it is still read only. the embedded xp could be locking it up.

if the mobo is bigger than micro atx then we could in theory put any itx board in there. if we can hack that monitor/audio/touchscreen cable. endless possibilities.....

pefdude · « **Reply #56 on:** October 10, 2007, 04:55:51 pm »

Me too! I'm local so i'd be picking it up.

heffe2001 · « **Reply #57 on:** October 10, 2007, 09:58:06 pm »

According to the PDF's, teh units sound ports are both inputs, no outputs (Microphone in and Line in). Have you tried yours yet to see if either is output or not? It's not a huge deal, as you can always put a USB or PCMCIA soundcard in the unit, just curious if you tried it out. It also for whatever reason shows the video cable output as a video/audio port?

TheDriver · « **Reply #58 on:** October 11, 2007, 03:39:28 am »

Nice idea for a compact cab project. Incidently I work with the health service in the uk and our IT dept took delivery of 200 of these last year, they are very,very expensive so if the price was going to be just above the 100 mark then it is an absolute bargain.

Regards.

mountain · « **Reply #59 on:** October 15, 2007, 04:58:40 pm »

Quote from: USSEnterprise on October 09, 2007, 10:19:47 pm

Well, I have the whole thing running on my dining room table, sans the 60 pound cart and the 10 pound batteries. Once the batteries are removed, the power supply is relatively lightweight. Maybe 35 lbs total shipping weight. The two 12v sealed lead acid batteries add about 10 lbs, and, if new and fully charged, will supposedly run the system for 14 hours. The audio, according to what I saw in device manager, is AC'97 based. The video is based on S3. LAN is Realtek. Once I get a HDD hooked up tomorrow, and hopefully install the full Windows XP, I'll submit an update.

Any luck yet?

Kaytrim · « **Reply #60 on:** October 18, 2007, 12:06:58 pm »

Any progress to report? Looking forward to getting my hands on one of these little toys.

Barry Barcrest · « **Reply #61 on:** October 21, 2007, 06:58:10 pm »

If you wanted to, you could probably run freebox on these things. I run mine on a P700mhz with 128mb of ram so these with 256mb should do the trick. I run my audio across a network too without much trouble.

ElfShotTheFood · « **Reply #62 on:** November 01, 2007, 03:49:33 pm »

any more info on these things?? or has the real-life flu got you?

srabelpawz · « **Reply #63 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:27:54 pm »

whatever happened with the last batch of touchscrren computers that everyone here bought like a year or 2 ago?

CheffoJeffo · « **Reply #64 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:34:12 pm »

Quote from: srabelpawz on November 02, 2007, 02:27:54 pm

whatever happened with the last batch of touchscrren computers that everyone here bought like a year or 2 ago?

I actually pulled mine out and started playing with it again ... it still works fine ... I just need to find some juke software that will run well on it (IIRC, it's a Celeron 400 with 64Mb RAM).

srabelpawz · « **Reply #65 on:** November 02, 2007, 02:44:42 pm »

Quote from: CheffoJeffo on November 02, 2007, 02:34:12 pm

Quote from: srabelpawz on November 02, 2007, 02:27:54 pm
whatever happened with the last batch of touchscrren computers that everyone here bought like a year or 2 ago?

I actually pulled mine out and started playing with it again ... it still works fine ... I just need to find some juke software that will run well on it (IIRC, it's a Celeron 400 with 64Mb RAM).

i found mine as well but don't know much about computers to mess with it though. i wanted to see if anyone could help me with it so i'll pm you as to not crap up this guys thread anymore

Encryptor · « **Reply #66 on:** January 24, 2008, 05:49:56 am »

Any news on these?

Encryptor

srabelpawz · « **Reply #67 on:** January 25, 2008, 07:06:25 pm »

i have one of the "old ones" if you are interested. the one's everyone ordered like a year or so ago

Encryptor · « **Reply #68 on:** January 26, 2008, 08:31:49 pm »

srabelpawz - Do you have the specs or model number of the one you have?

What would you be looking to get for it?

Encryptor

srabelpawz · « **Reply #69 on:** January 30, 2008, 08:51:36 am »

i sent you a PM


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