HP is purchasing Palm.
http://technologizer.com/2010/04/28/hp-buys-palm/
Apple wants ARM
HP-Palm(-Compaq)
There has been rumours for a while of suitors wanting to get their hands on Palm, including HTC. HTC evidently backed away from it and HP has won out.
Palm took over from the Apple Newton in being a mobile personal organiser with some mobile phone network connectivity and PIM synchronisation but have lost market share to other phone companies.
http://www.palm.com/au/
HP were big ...
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Congratulations to the winner of the embedded Spark 2010 Challenge: Marco Bodoira. Well done Marco
The Grand Prize Winner of the embeddedSPARK 2010 Challenge is:
The Guitar Foot Switch Effect by Marco Bodoira A.K.A. marco.bodoira
http://www.embeddedspark.com/forum.aspx?g=posts&t=267
The judges all agreed that the remaining 2 projects;
Uber Tag by Wally Nehls A.K.A. Waldozer
and
Bowman's Assistant by George Mallard A.K.A. DuckPaddle
were equally great, and so they ...
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The cat is out of the bag… The Northern Summer (it will be Winter Downunder) embedded Spark Challenge has been announced:
http://www.embeddedspark.com/howtoenter.aspx
The theme is “Media Explosion” and the context in Windows Embedded Standard 7, the embedded version of Windows 7.
Thos who progress to round two get a suitable hardware supplied.
WES 7 has gone RTM but not yet available on MSDN (Subscribers).
Key Dates
April 27
embeddedSPARK
2010 SUMMER
Challenge ...
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This is where native code meets .NET. Its very much a black art, lots of smoke and mirrors etc. etc… But a necessary evil with Windows CE. That is because it is the gateway from .NET applications to the hardware and to the operating system. This is the first of a series of blogs on this matter.
I must though give credit to others’ who shoulders I am standing on for this. Whilst I have had experience with PInvoke going back to the first version of .NET CF on Windows CE (I think it was about V4.2) I have referenced a number of sources in an attempt to provide a comprehensive coverage of this topic. I’ll provide a reading list and some links in a later blog.
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As previous, I purchased an 8.4” LVDS display from ICOP, the kit manufacturer. In this article I cover getting the display working working. There were some issues for which I am got great support from ICOP in resolving.
Display: LCD-AU084-U-SET with touch / LCD-AU084-SET without touch
Target System: Vortex86DX- Spark Kit .. in enclosure. This has VDX-6326-256 single board computer
The display was mounted on the top of the box using some plastic mounts. This requi ...
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This is a "how-to" on using a USB touch panel with an LVDS LCD panel. In paticular it covers using the touch panel available from ICOP for the 8.4" display as supplied by ICOP and used with the embedded Spark kit.
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I wanted to attach an LCD touch screen to the top of the kit. The lid has a diagonal of about nine inches (22cm) so a 6, 7 or 8 inch screen will do.
The LCD
The options are:
A portable LCD screen unit with a VGA interface such as:
http://www.touchscreentech.com.au/products/Touchscreen%20Products
http://www.xenarc.com/product/index-monitor.html
An LVDS LCD display such as:
(From ICOP) http://www.icop.com.tw/pdList.aspx?c=120 ...
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Smartphones typically have an LCD graphical screen with touch input. Touch is used to take user input via windows controls such as menus and command buttons. A SIP (Software Input Panel) may also be used am on-screen keyboard. Alternatively, some phones use a small physical keyboard. Some use both. Most touchscreens are single input, that is only one point of contact can be deciphered. Multitouch is becoming a required feature. Multitouch allows not only simp ...
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I got my entry in with about 24 hours to spare:
http://www.embeddedspark.com/submissions/Detail.aspx?eid=285
Twenty two entries were posted by the cut-off out of 75 in round 2. Three now get chosen to present at ESC in Silicon Valley later this month.
Being the Easter break (we have a 4 day weekend break over Easter: Friday to Monday) we were due to take a short vacation in the country but had to that delay that so that I could submit before leaving. I had to quickly learn how to post a vid ...
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There are plenty of example sand how-to’s on how to build a Windows CE image, download and debug it on a target:
Sam’s Jumpstart Kit:
<CD>/Vortex86DX_SPARK_WINCE600_JumpStart_Rev2.5.pdf
<CD>/SampleCodes/OSDesign/MyWinCE_OSDesign_Project_VDX6326.zip
Where the CD is the “Solution of Fault Tolerance x86 System-on-chip” as supplied with the kit
MSDN Virtual Lab: Windows Embedded CE 6.0 Platform Builde ...
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