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Title: An add-on touch screen interface
Post by: RayB on June 29, 2007, 04:11:42 pm

Saw this while looking at electronic kits:

http://www.electronickits.com/kit/complete/elec/vek8046.htm

Looks interesting. Would be cool to add to a cabinet to enable selecting a game category, and things like that. But I'm not sure if it even interfaces with a PC or not, and how to get a front end to work with something like that.

Title: Re: An add-on touch screen interface
Post by: BobA on June 29, 2007, 04:38:56 pm

It will interface with whatever you need.  Has momentary or toggled open collector switches.   Just connect to your interface of choice and it will provide the keypresses.  It is sort of just a touchscreen keyboard with 8 programmable keys. Too bad it does not use an active screen behind so you could program what the keys look like instead of having to print an overlay.