Peripherals/USB to VGA

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A VGA adapter is rather expensive, and not as useful as a TV adapter. TV output has recently become cheap (witness the rash of cheap game-in-a-joystick systems at toy stores), using similar display hardware could work. A microcontroller connected to the USB port would easily handle regular Linux text displays, and at least be an aid in debugging.

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The general impression at this point is that USB2VGA dongles don't work on the XO, but I don't understand why that would be, so I picked one up to experiment with. I'll document my work here.


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