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[Fwd: Morning update for the (GPLWear,GPLWearcomp,GPLW,WCCoop,Circuitwear) project]

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Subject: Re: Morning update for the (GPLWear,GPLWearcomp,GPLW,WCCoop,Circuitwear) project
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        Lizzy looks ok but not having a dispay system avalable at this time
   is a problem.

Do note that you can do a Lizzy with a standard VGA heads-up display, just
use a PC/104 VGA card.  There's not actually that much difference between
Wearcomp and Lizzy -- I'd just steal the best ideas from each.

The biggest problem we've seen with VGA displays is that they take a lot of
power (~ 5 Watts!) -- not in the display so much as in the driver-board.
When ordering the displays, make sure to get the power consumption for both
the display and the driver -- the sales people will tend to only tell you
the display power consumption if you don't ask specifically.  Perhaps when
Motorolla comes out with their improved Koplin cyberdisplay (QVGA) this
will change, but last I heard they were still predicting Q2.

        Good luck,
        Brad

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