First of All...
I am thrilled to find your site!
I'm an ITX enthusiast and some of my project ideas have needed integrated input controls (like on the 633) while others have needed a way to communicate with the user (like your entire product line). Up till now, I've get a project down on paper, then abandon it because I can't justify the cost of a touchscreen lcd monitor which adds $700 to the project. Your components are going to resurrect several of my abandoned projects. Thanks!
Now for the new product suggestions...
Your 633 product has several soft plastic input buttons which I assume can send signals down the serial cable to become input for a computer program. Please consider offering sets of these buttons without the lcd. A 12 button keypad and a full keyboard would be excellent. Small buttons would be the key feature for me, since I have to fit them on the 7x7 inch top of my itx enclosure.
A 4 x 20 serial lcd with the 633 buttons would also be great since a simple tree (like the windows outline control) can be drawn in a 4 x 20 character matrix. Imagine an mp3 player with 60gigs of songs on file. Scrolling two lines at a time will get old quick. On that subject, how about larger character matrices. Anybody remember ms-dos's 25x40 and 25x80 modes. I'd be estatic over an 8 x 20 serial lcd with buttons, but the uses for larger sets of characters is incredible.
The rest of my ideas are a bit of a departure from your current product line, but might appeal to you because they will appeal to the kinds of people who come to see your serial and usb panels. I would love to find switches, dials and keylocks which report their state to the computer via a standard serial or usb port. Gauges and led's which get their values from a serial or usb port would also be cool. Of course to make use of more than a few of these in a single project, some way of sharin the computer's limited number of serial or usb ports across dozens of these controls would be needed.
Ok, I've daydreamed enough for now.
Please put me on your new product announcement email list.
Thanks,
Colt Taylor
I am thrilled to find your site!
I'm an ITX enthusiast and some of my project ideas have needed integrated input controls (like on the 633) while others have needed a way to communicate with the user (like your entire product line). Up till now, I've get a project down on paper, then abandon it because I can't justify the cost of a touchscreen lcd monitor which adds $700 to the project. Your components are going to resurrect several of my abandoned projects. Thanks!
Now for the new product suggestions...
Your 633 product has several soft plastic input buttons which I assume can send signals down the serial cable to become input for a computer program. Please consider offering sets of these buttons without the lcd. A 12 button keypad and a full keyboard would be excellent. Small buttons would be the key feature for me, since I have to fit them on the 7x7 inch top of my itx enclosure.
A 4 x 20 serial lcd with the 633 buttons would also be great since a simple tree (like the windows outline control) can be drawn in a 4 x 20 character matrix. Imagine an mp3 player with 60gigs of songs on file. Scrolling two lines at a time will get old quick. On that subject, how about larger character matrices. Anybody remember ms-dos's 25x40 and 25x80 modes. I'd be estatic over an 8 x 20 serial lcd with buttons, but the uses for larger sets of characters is incredible.
The rest of my ideas are a bit of a departure from your current product line, but might appeal to you because they will appeal to the kinds of people who come to see your serial and usb panels. I would love to find switches, dials and keylocks which report their state to the computer via a standard serial or usb port. Gauges and led's which get their values from a serial or usb port would also be cool. Of course to make use of more than a few of these in a single project, some way of sharin the computer's limited number of serial or usb ports across dozens of these controls would be needed.
Ok, I've daydreamed enough for now.
Please put me on your new product announcement email list.
Thanks,
Colt Taylor
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