[Arm-netbook] Housing idea: screenless laptop

Adam Van Ymeren adam.vany at gmail.com
Tue Sep 13 13:46:26 BST 2016


On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Stefan Monnier
<monnier at iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
>> Wouldn't that community better served by a "libre" (1) USB braille keyboard,
>> that could be hooked to anything that has usb, and something like that
>> as a display (I dont' know which technology those kind of displays need for
>> cabling)
>
> But the user would still need to carry around that keyboard plus
> a "standard" computer (I guess it could be a tablet).
>
> On the flip side a "braille EOMA housing" with an EOMA A20 card inside
> could be turned into a "dumb USB braille keyboard" via the A20's
> OTG port.

Seems like a good use of an EOMA68 passthrough card.  If you're not
using the chassis to house a computer card, put a passthrough card in
that exposes the keyboard as a USB port.

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>         Stefan
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