Drive Small VGA screen from PDA

On May 15, 8:13*pm, wrote:
On May 15, 8:02*pm, ContestID67 wrote:

Interesting idea which I had thought about for automotive use. *Of
course there is increased power draw but it would be a poor man's
ClearNav. *Does only the Dell's provide you VGA out? *How about
IPAQs. *Thanks.

A number of PDAs have VGA displays. I just happened to see the VGA
cable advertisement and realized the Dell did not need any other
components to drive a VGA display. I would think the other PDS could
also do this, although I am not sure. I have found a document for the
DELL pin outs, which would allow you to construct a cable with
interfaces to the VGA, GPS and a power source. Yes, sticking together
a bunch of off-the-shelf components does look like a poor-man
solution, but more like the Craggy Aero design approach. I understand
the ClearNav design focused on ergonomics and NK designed all new
hardware and software components to achieve this goal The price of
both systems is very close, however, and much higher then this poor-
man approach would cost - if it worked. It's hard to believe someone
has not experimented with this already.

Here is the Dell pin out map. Look at the bottom of the page.http://www.handhelds.org/moin/moin.c...ximX50Hardware

I'm waiting for someone to build one of these based on an OLED
display. They appear to be much brighter and far lower in power
consumption than LCDs, plus incredibly thin. The expectation is they
will be cheaper to produce than LCDs in volume - eventually.