Well, this is not really a "progress" report, but I think it is a fine example how useful a small computer like the Pandora or Pyra can be.

Nikolaus is too busy with finishing the hardware design, so he doesn't have time to try to get the Solomon (SSD) Rotator chip to work. notaz offered help out a bit when he finds the time - but doesn't have the hardware.

So we created this little setup (you can view the picture at the webboards post, see below)

In the back you can see the OMAP5 EVM, which has the BOE LCD connected to the Display PCB (incl. the SSD Chip). You can see the LCD in the middle of the picture.

In the front you can see a Pandora with a small webcam mounted.

The Pandora is connected via USB2Serial cable to the debug port of the EVM. It's possible to hard-reset the EVM there as well as get the direct serial output (which is useful for debugging).

The Webcam is setup to show the BOE display on the Pandora.

Both the EVM and the Pandora are connected to the internet as well.

notaz can login to either one via SSH and poke around.

Additionally, the Pandora acts as a VNC server, so he can also connect to Pandoras desktop and see the webcam live video stream.

Here's a summary: He can connect to both the EVM and Pandora, see the serial debug of the EVM and reboot it and poke around with the display. With the webcam he can see whether the display shows something on the screen or not.

Well, and all that with pretty low power usage :) Once again, it shows how flexible something like the Pandora is - and the Pyra will be even more flexible.

But please don't expect results within a few days. notaz doesn't have much time, and we probably also need to send more questions to Solomon to get it to work. Things like these won't happen over night, but hopefully, we can show a working display with rotator soon!

I've attached the picture as MPO file as well - that's a 3D picture. If you got a 3D-Viewer, you can see the setup in full 3D :)

Discuss about that post on the webboards: http://boards.openpandora.org/topic/17143-an-interesting-setup-involving-a-p...

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