DVI or VGA sounds sensible to me.
For people with small desks, eBay is full of switching solutions.
Suggestion for bb.email: raise the message-body size-limit from 40KB to 400+KB.

New group member: Patrick Doyle at MIT, we sold him an FPGA and the crazy fool wants 2 more and 3 of these www.balloonboard.org/balloonwiki/Balloon3Breakout
(DB and I are sorting).
Keep an eye on www.iendian.com over the summer, I'll be freshening it up (suggestions welcome).
Is my statement about the Balloon3HoppyUSB correct?

Toby Churchill
20 Panton Street
CAMBRIDGE, CB2 1HP
www.tobychurchill.info


On 24 May 2011 11:36, Peter Clifton <pcjc2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 08:04 +0100, Steve Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue 24/05/11 07:16 , "P.J.G. Long" <pjgl2@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> (I'm trying to think of a time when you'd want both Balloon's FPGA
> resource, and a genuine framebuffered, pixel-painting display on a TV,
> and I can't. Something that needed the 3D graphics engine of the OMAP,
> on a projector, maybe?)

The only case I could think of was an industrial control application
(not one I'm perusing at the moment) where I was interested in using an
off the shelf LCD screen to display status on some power electronics
systems.

The Balloon was a contender for the embedded processor, but you are
right - that one would have to be careful not to let the graphics swamp
things.

As a "might be relevant" argument, the Begale board has an HDMI
connector (which actually talks DVI). Whilst its not the hard use-case
you asked for, if it meant a user not choosing Beagle over Balloon, that
would presumably be some sort of win.

Best wishes,

--
Peter Clifton

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