XO Peripherals

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Peripherals Overview:

The 10 cent O'Scope Adaptor

see: Oscilloscope adaptor

The 25 dollar BioSign/TeleHealth

see: TeleHealth Module

The 100 dollar Projector

  • Mary Lou may already have a design for this --DyD
  • Ultrabright LEDs
  • High resolution, high colour LCD
  • Diverging Lens?
  • USB to LCD processing ICs
    • USB micro controller
    • USB to digital graphics converter
    • LCD controller

The 25 dollar USB measuring unit and sensors

see: Technical specification

The 50 cent AM radio receiver

  • MK848
  • Analog processing for control of tuning cap
  • Tuning cap
  • Ferrite
  • Coil
  • USB powered

The 1 dollar AM radio transmitter

  • Crystal or Ceramic Resonator
  • audio transformer for modulation
  • USB powered

The environmental monitoring dongle

  • CDS
    • Generic
  • Thermometer
    • MCP9700
  • Humidity

How to do it

  • Via an AVR micro controller with USB, ADC, and/or DAC
    • avr-gcc, avr-libc and avrice
  • Via the 5v@500ma offered per USB port, with a total of 1A
    • Soft limit via power rail; it is not necessary to follow proper USB 2.0 protocol and/or complete a USB handshake
  • Via the mono mic-in/stereo audio out, see Audio hardware
  • Via the unused channels on the AD188 chip
  • Via the Measure / Oscilloscope Activity


Peripherals People

  • I'm trying to compile a list of individuals for a mailing list/management purposes
    • Arjun Sarwal
      • arjun@laptop.org
      • arjs on irc
      • Wrote the Measure activity while interning for OLPC last summer
    • Joshua Seal
      • joshuas@belkin.com
      • joshua@laptop.org
      • Works for Belkin, currently developing a slew of OLPC Peripherals
    • Zdenek Broz
      • Has group of developers at Brno University of Technology(Czech Republic) working on a USB microcontroller/ADC platform
    • Ian Daniher
      • it.daniher@gmail.com
      • Currently focusing on the TeleHealth Module and O'scope adaptor
      • DyDisMe on irc.freenode.net
    • Bernardo Innocenti
      • _bernie or _bernie|home on irc.freenode.com
      • Has experience programming Atmel Chips(ARM/AVR), Motorola, Intel, PPC, Texas Instruments...
    • Richard Smith
    • Rafael Ortiz
      • dirakx or dirak1 on irc.freenode.net
      • wrote most of EKG page
    • Your Name Here
      • email or irc alias
      • skill set or such


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