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8-bit touch-sensitive handheld
MAKE Magazine —
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]
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8-bit CPU with 4KB of RAM apes iPhone interface
CrunchGear —
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 for the version on my G1.
The touchscreen is salvaged from an off-brand PMP, and the CPU is a 12Mhz Atmega644 — not something I’m familiar with, but I trust the author when he says ...
8-bit Processor Device Looks Snappy
Ubergizmo —
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 looks and performs smoothly, so that’s quite impressive. Maybe the next big thing for mobile phone OS developers is to come up with more lightweight software? It would seem kind of ...
Touch-sensitive 8-bit handheld
Ubergizmo —
Who would have thought that an extremely simple 8-bit processor when coupled with a cheap touchscreen LCD display could end up as something fun? Check out what this hobbyist did with the mentioned parts, and be amazed.
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