Which development board and LCD?

abcd12 wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I am building a simple monitoring system, that would read data from few
> sensors and display them on a colour 320x240 LCD. As far as the
> microcontroller goes, I'll probably go with ARM9 or ARM7. Do you have any
> suggestions about the development board and LCD. I've been looking at
> Densitron, but they don't offer LCDs with built-in controllers. I've also
> looked at NXP LH7952x but I can't seem to find any dev boards based on it.
> One more thing, if I can order the components from Europe that would be
> great.
> 
> Thanks in advance!

Hi!

Just found a 2D/3D accelerated OpenGL ARM board. Might be a "little" 
overkill as a sensor display - but the price is not! You could even make 
some fancy real-time powerpoint-like curves... You could play or hear 
music, while waiting for more sensor data... It has built-in UPS ():

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console)
Quote: "...Externally accessible UART for hardware hacking and 
debugging...Brick prevention with integrated bootloader for safe code 
experimentation...Dimensions: 140x83x27mm..."

http://openpandora.org/
Quote: "...
     * ARM� Cortex�-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
     * 430-MHz TMS320C64x+� DSP Core
     * PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
     * 800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
     * Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
     * Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
     * Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
     * 43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
     * Around 10+ Hours battery life
..."

http://pandorawiki.org/Category:Categories

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