[Arm-netbook] asus eeepc 7inch, modifying it to accept a pc card

[Christopher Havel]

I'll see what I can find on the screen... eBay does not reliably list model
#s but who knows.

Oh -- and for the keyboard -- look into the work done with custom keyboards
and a microcontroller called the "Teensy" -- the code should be compatible
with an Arduino Micro -- of which cheap clones can be had on eBay. To be
clear, you want the Arduino MICRO with the ATMEGA32U4 in it, and
specifically NOT the similar Arduino NANO with the ATMEGA328 in it. The
'32U4 part has on-chip USB so you can do USB-HID stuff with it. I will warn
you that the cheap Arduino clone boards tend to use a particularly touchy
voltage regulator -- I've fried one of those boards that way, it's not
hard...

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 4:58 PM, Pičugins Arsenijs <crimier at yandex.ru>
wrote:

> > Quick post from my phone -- existing PCMCIA card cages from random
> laptops
> > are a dime-a-dozen on fleaBay, if you want to go that route. They would
> > likely need minor modifications to the keying, but that's hardly a
> > showstopper.
>
> True, but they have proprietary pinouts, can easily be as big as to be
> unwieldly, and they're more expensive - I just checked Taobao and a PCMCIA
> socket there is 72 cents, I'll get 10pcs.
>
> > Ron, did you see my previous email? I have an LCD panel that may work for
> > you, to replace the original in the Eee - but I won't know if it's
> > compatible, without that part number. If it *is* compatible, I'll ask you
> > to cover shipping costs and that's all.
>
> I can check it tomorrow, too - I'm not at my workplace right now. I also
> imagine you can look up eBay for "asus eee 701 panel" and find the model
> numbers.
>
> > I know /almost/ for a fact that my display will work with an EOMA68 card,
> > as it takes a parallel TTL input -- somewhere I think I have the
> datasheet
> > -- I just need your part number to know if they are physically
> > interchangeable without getting out the craft knife... I suspect the
> aspect
> > ratios are different, though -- mine is straight SVGA (800x600), and
> IIRC,
> > Eee PC netbooks were always widescreen -- either 800x480 or 1024x600...
>
> Right, EEE PC 701 has a 800x480 screen. So, I'm guessing that the display
> bezel mod will be necessary, too.
>
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