looking for small VGA LCD monitor display, around 8" - 10"

Search Google and eBay for hami lcd.

If you are in the US , look at earthlcd.com anywhere else the shipping costs are extremely excessive

Alex

Good tip! I found some on eBay. What are the typical power requirements for these ? (I have same question in to a seller ... )

Another great tip! Am looking there right now. Also found

on eBay. Thanks !

Some good tips so far; here's another: search for the terms caruter, lilliput, ands phylon. The latter two are makers of LCD VGA-ready video panels, sold by several of the mini-ITX retailers (Logic Supply, etc.) so you should be able to compare prices.

Note: Many of these units are touch screens. This is not a bad thing for a small robot. In fact, it's a terrific thing -- toss the keyboard after you're done programming. The touch screen interface works via USB, and most come with drivers for creating your own touch-enabled programs.

Don't overlook the DVD players with small screens. I just bought one from Fry's last night for $249, which is what many of the screens go for alone. Do note that most of these only have composite input. Fortunately, many mini-ITX boards have s-video and composite RCA video outputs.

-- Gordon

pogo wrote:

Make that carputer, as in "car computer."

-- Gordon

It is also possible to modify the small portable Playstation 1 screens to accept a signal from a VGA card. It requires some tweaking of the card sync and refresh, but it's definitely a cheap and low-power option.

Just won an 8'' VGA TFT LCD MONITOR With USB Touch Screen on eBay ! It is a Innovatek TM-868 8'' VGA & RCA TFT LCD MONITOR With USB Touch Screen Panel. The comments on this thread led me to finding the auction. Here's a link to their website showing the same item:

The cheapest LCD monitor with VGA input I found is 8" TFT LCD car monitor with TV Tuner for $129 at: . Make sure 1440 x 234 resolution will work with your application.

Paul.

Have any experience using it with Linux? I'm especially curious about touchscreen support. I could use several of these if they are Open.

(I still haven't gotten the touchscreen on my Toughbook working so I'm extra cautious about them.)

Thank you.

--kyler

From my reading, depending on your distro you may have your work cut out for you. Try mp3car.com. You'll find a section on their forum for Linux hacks, and a couple of posters have provided some tips on getting the USB drivers to work.

You might also join the DashPC mailing list --

-- as well as the SourceForge group of the same: It's Linux-based, and though aimed at car entertainment consoles, the ideas can readily be applied to mobile robots.

-- Gordon

what use is such a low res?

Sig: "Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." -Henry Ford

Think dots per inch, not resolution. An 8" LCD is a quarter of the area of a traditional desktop display. If you were to show a 1024x768 (for example) image on one, things would be tiny.

An 8" screen is about 6.5" wide, give or take. That's 98 pixels per inch. A 17" monitor is roughly 13" wide. Assuming a 1024x768 display, that's 78 pixels per inch. At 1280x1024 you'd have 98 pixels per inch, the same as the 8" display at 640x480.

-- Gordon

There was a time when that was the only resolution that a commonplace PC _had_.

For those of you wondering, I am still waiting on shipment of this item. I will post any interesting details I discover once it arrives.

( I hate it when you're forced to pay for "2 day shipping" only to have it shipped over a week after payment, and then take 5 days! Grrrrr. )

Item came in today. (January 9, 2006. I paid on Dec 29.2005.) Seems to be a good product, but the cable that comes with it is a little kludgey looking. If anyone would like I will post a linke to a photo of the item(s) later on ...