Cobra "Chumby project"

NETMF & Gadgeteer
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Now I’m trying to figure out why SystemMetrics is giving me 320x240 as a resolution when I have the 4.1" screen…

It’s the fun part of new hardware, figuring out all this stuff ;D

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Is the board signaling the 4.3" display correctly? IE, does the boot text look ok? It should be firmly lined up to the upper left corner.

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No the boot text says 320x240.

Note: I have upgraded the firmware.

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That is because you didn’t set the LCD configuration. I bet you didn’t see this :slight_smile: [url]http://www.tinyclr.com/downloads/Cobra/Broch_FEZ_TFTDisplayExpansion.pdf[/url]

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Dang, no auto detect huh? OK guess I’ll have to be clever when writing Pyxis2/Netby to support all the displays you have. Thanks for the help!

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Yeah, that’s what I thought. Also remember to reload the firmware and bootloader :slight_smile:

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Hey Skewworks,

Hows developing on the Cobra going? Maybe we should have a another Chumby web meeting before backend dev starts?

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Chris,

Current Status:

[ol]Screen size, touch screen configuration, auto-enable DHCP stored w/ ExtendWeakReferences.
Screen-szie can be changed in program w/ auto reboot.
DHCP can be changed in program
Custom controls form, progressbar, picturebox (and it’s freakin’ awesome), button, and label complete
Programs can be loaded, they are given a desktop reference to create their form(s).
Picturebox can load image over the WEB!
Boot screen added
More to come[/ol]

EDIT: I’ve also tweaked the ever living daylights out of the rendering engine.

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Do you want to start committing code to the Google Code page?

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Not yet, it’s still alpha code; I have a hard enough time letting go of beta code. Give it a week or two though and I should have something worth checking in.

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Alright, sounds good.

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Can you add me as well so I can jump in there to do modifications/uploads/wiki? I use thom [at] skewworks [dot com] for my Google login.

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Done.

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Excellent. As soon as I have beta ready stuff I’ll make a video and put the source up.

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It’s that time…

Basic OS loading is complete and I want to start by allowing the user to work without an SD card present as the hard-drive, so it’s time to start developing web apps.

Chumby supports web apps via Adobe Flash; well NETMF doesn’t have native support for that and I’m not coding it so our options are:

  1. Create a web app system that can be used across multiple platforms (i.e. a series of HTTP requests to handle interaction so apps could be hosted on Apache servers)

  2. Create apps using web services. This has the distinct drawback of limiting apps to Microsoft based servers.

  3. ???

  4. Profit

Thoughts?

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Hi Ske,

I was thinking the apps would run on the device itself without need for external servers. I think we should have another web meeting on this. I think we had the first before you were in on the project.

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Chris,

Yeah normal apps will execute from SD/USB I’m talking about Web Apps. Pyxis OS / Netby will support them both.

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I see.

Well, the ultate thing would be to get Silverlight running, but I don’t see that happening, so maybe a simple HTML/XML based web service?

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OK I’ll see what I can come up with. In the mean time I just went ahead and started SD development. In the mean time here’s the latest updates:

Automatic detection of internet connection & icon to reflect connectivity.

Automatic detection of SD insertion/removal & icon to reflect (max 1 sec delay)

New menu system completed. Much like previous system but is better thought out and supports menu icons.

Desktop view modes Application / Services / Both

I should have a sample app or two finished tonight if I don’t get too lazy.

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Any screen shots? :smiley: