Touchscreen

ok folks, this is just a first test of this wiki:

there is presently no page called "touchscreen" i call it now on "ts"

where will it be?? at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Touchscreen ?? RIGHT there!!

anyway:

i found one obviously working xo with ts at youtube: XO touch screen hacking...

though it should be easy to do:

first you need a source of hardware???

i was looking around what was a ebay and found quite a lot of sources for eeepc

i ordered one for my eeepc 900 , got it and will add according to this video at youtube: How to: Adding touch panel to Asus Eee PC 901 (900 is nearly the same as 901)

coming along with it was a controller-board that has to be plugged in at a present USB-port at the eeepc (or the xo1 in the future...) on this controller-board there is a hub, too that has 4 USB-ports:

FIRST will be used if you decide to plug it into (better lets say: thread into) an already used USB-port as you have to deliver it to the now used port to get the camera working... (as at the eeepc there is the option to use the camera-USB-port (ok, i intend for myself to go and use the NOT YET used PCI-e (it got another FREE USB-port -as far as i know by now...)) hope that makes it faster AND does NOT use an alraedy used USB-port -so i plug in the ts and have got 3 free ones left...)

in one of these three i intend to plug a BLUETOOTH-dongle (to make it possible to switch on and off i think of using a real switch to have control about po

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BUT where to find / buy such forxo/olpc ?? see: http://laptop.org/en/laptop/hardware/specs.shtml

xo / olpc got a 7.5" Dual-mode TFT display panel size is: 170 mm x 140 mm Viewing area: 152.4mm × 114.3mm

if you had found sources let me know!!

thomas@biopilze.de

ps

here are further possible sources: ts-sellers in china ...

summary: where to get and how to add touchscreen to xo1