[Arm-netbook] My little idea...

[Christopher Havel]

Never dealt with licensing, so whatever you think is best works for me. 
I'm pawing through that PDF you pointed me to, just to be safe -- if 
it's any help the revised VGA schematic I'm drawing up now uses 
74HC125's for the buffer-drivers. Gimme another half hour or so and I'll 
have you another scan <g>

One other thing I thought of -- would it be permissible to tie a GPIO in 
with my power-on logic setup (in between the Mims-debounced pushbutton 
and the improvised T flipflop) so that the system could at least turn 
itself off...? Right now you'd need a Win95 style "it is now safe to 
turn off your computer" screen to tell the user to hit the pushbutton. 
Ack. (Also, if there's a good way to do that circuit with an IRF510 
instead of an IRF9510 I'd love to know -- IRF510s can be had at Radio 
Shack, but the IRF9510 is almost hen's-teeth even at Mouser...)

I'm afraid I'm useless with opamps. I've used a 741 once and it didn't 
work >.< of course when I stuffed a 386 in there, that DID work -- was a 
super duper simple amplified speaker in a reuseable coffee cup for a 
relative who never used it because by the time it was done she had a 
different car with an aux-in jack so she didn't need it.

Oh, yeah... "flying squirrel"...? What the heck...?

On 10/16/2013 1:37 PM, luke.leighton wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Christopher Havel
> <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Nevermind, I found the schematic on their wordpress blog. I think I've got
>> them beat -- how about hardware-level switching between 18b and 24b color,
>> using a single GPIO pin? <g>
>>
>> Don't worry about Olimex, my idea uses different buffer chips, in a
>> different way, and the buffer scheme is really the only part of the design
>> that they "own" (if at all -- there's no license info or anything on the
>> blog post...) so I think we should be in the clear there.
>>
>> I'll have schematics up in a bit...
>   star.
>
>   what i'll then do if that's ok with you is put the bits of it that
> are different from the MEB (because, effectively, the design you've
> come up with is near-identical to the MEB except the addition of VGA)
> into KiCAD.  would a GPLv3+ license be ok with you?
>
> l.
>
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