Sort by CrunchGear (Free subscription) - 11/08/2009 - YouTube
Can you make an iPhone out of an AVR? No. Can you get a surprising amout of functionality out of a humble 8 bit processor and a cheap touch LCD? Yes.M...
Sort by CrunchGear (Free subscription) - 11/08/2009
Watching this video, it doesn't seem very much more than a demo for a rather anonymous-looking little touchscreen device, a PMP prototype maybe. Then you find out that the whole thing is running an 8-bit processor with 4KB of RAM. Touchscreen tricks like scrolling momentum are implemented perfectly well, and there appears to be little or no lag. Pac-Man runs at 60fps, which is more than I can say...
Sort by MAKE: Blog (Free subscription) - 11/08/2009
Peter, from Rossum's Posterous, asks the musical question: Can you make an iPhone out of an AVR? No. Can you get a surprising amout of functionality out of a humble 8-bit processor and a cheap touch LCD? Yes. AVR homebrew device with iPhone aspirations [via Peter Horvath's Twitter feed ] Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in Electronics | Digg this!
Sort by übergizmo (Free subscription) - 11/09/2009
Is the software running on mobile devices nowadays too bloated? Well, considering that the hardware currently available is quite powerful, we certainly can’t blame the developers for beefing things up (especially when everybody wants more features). That being said, a video has surfaced of a homemade device, running an 8-bit processor, 4KB of RAM, and a 12Mhz Atmega644 CPU. Based on the video, it...
