Use of the Bifferboard to act as a wireless display for a graphics pad

[Douglas Gourlay]

Hi there,

I'm looking for a linux based solution to displaying in real time,
input from a Graphics Pad (that has at least Linux 2.6.xx OS drivers)

I would like to keep this as simple as possible.
Using a bluetooth link would be good, recognizing that the graphics
pad is a USB slave device and I want to have a 3.5" screen to display
to.

WIl the bifferboard do this? Will it do it 'easily'?
Thanks
Doug

[Andrew Scheller]

> I'm looking for a linux based solution to displaying in real time,
> input from a Graphics Pad (that has at least Linux 2.6.xx OS drivers)

> Using a bluetooth link would be good, recognizing that the graphics
> pad is a USB slave device and I want to have a 3.5" screen to display
> to.

I'm afraid your question is really vague, and as such it's hard to
provide any kind of answers.
Do you have specific examples of the hardware you want to use? By
"Graphics Pad" do you mean the sort of thing that Wacom makes? What
sort of screen are you using? Are you planning to use a bifferboard at
each end of the "wireless link"?

Bifferboard comes with ethernet and USB interfaces (and with a small
modification can also provide GPIO / I2C / SPI interfaces). So if your
graphics-pad and display-screen and bluetooth-dongle all have USB
interfaces, and Linux drivers available, then the answer to your
question is yes. But it'd probably still require some custom
programming, so may not be the "easiest" solution, depending what you
classify as easy ;)

Lurch