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Lake · 03-30-2008, 02:19 PM

I used the Verdex motherboard (it's the newest/fastest type, with the USB host capability) that can use one 60 pin expansion board (on one side) and then a 120 (on the other) so the mainboard is sandwiched between the two.

I went with the "Console-vx" (vx implying it works with the verdex boards only) and the "Net-Wifi-microSD-FCC" for the other side. The main board I went with was the 400mhz with bluetooth (the fastest one with the most memory lacks bluetooth).

If you get the Console-LCD-VX board you can drive a samsung LCD that you can get from the gumstix store. I haven't looked into that. I don't know what the software end of that is like. I wanted to drive multiple LCD in multiple locations so I knew it wasn't for me.

The display I'm using is from ezlcd.com. I'm already accustomed to writing code to draw in primitives (think squares, circles, text, etc) so the USB/Serial based interface is fine with me. But it's not like you can use a standard GUI-kit or normal programs (the bandwidth just isn't there to update every pixel on the whole screen 60 or even 30 times a second). Everything that displays to the LCD is pretty much going to be custom code.

03-30-2008, 02:19 PM	#3
Lake Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 54	I used the Verdex motherboard (it's the newest/fastest type, with the USB host capability) that can use one 60 pin expansion board (on one side) and then a 120 (on the other) so the mainboard is sandwiched between the two. I went with the "Console-vx" (vx implying it works with the verdex boards only) and the "Net-Wifi-microSD-FCC" for the other side. The main board I went with was the 400mhz with bluetooth (the fastest one with the most memory lacks bluetooth). If you get the Console-LCD-VX board you can drive a samsung LCD that you can get from the gumstix store. I haven't looked into that. I don't know what the software end of that is like. I wanted to drive multiple LCD in multiple locations so I knew it wasn't for me. The display I'm using is from ezlcd.com. I'm already accustomed to writing code to draw in primitives (think squares, circles, text, etc) so the USB/Serial based interface is fine with me. But it's not like you can use a standard GUI-kit or normal programs (the bandwidth just isn't there to update every pixel on the whole screen 60 or even 30 times a second). Everything that displays to the LCD is pretty much going to be custom code.