wraggster
July 11th, 2012, 20:21
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A few weeks ago we caught wind of [Mick] breaking out his screwdrivers and soldering iron to get a serial console on his son’s VTech InnoTab (http://hackaday.com/2012/05/24/putting-linux-on-the-vtech-innotab/). [Mick] was able to get the touchscreen working and successfully ported SCUMMVM to the device, but there was still a long road ahead to get the source for this pint-sized tablet.
[David Anders] from elinux.org wrote in to tell us VTech is now giving away their source for the InnoTab (http://www.elinux.org/InnoTab), something they’ve been holding back so far. [Dave] is now verifying the VTech release is 100% complete, so if you’d like to give him a hand, drop him a line (http://elinux.org/User:Prpplague).
If you’re thinking this is your ticket to an inexpensive and powerful Linux tablet, prepare to be disappointed. The InnoTab is an ARM 11 running at 180 MHz with a paltry 64 MB of RAM. That’s not exactly top-of-the-line hardware, but at the very least you’ll be able to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTHwF1sS8_4&feature=player_embedded on it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/11/turning-the-innotab-into-a-linux-tablet/
A few weeks ago we caught wind of [Mick] breaking out his screwdrivers and soldering iron to get a serial console on his son’s VTech InnoTab (http://hackaday.com/2012/05/24/putting-linux-on-the-vtech-innotab/). [Mick] was able to get the touchscreen working and successfully ported SCUMMVM to the device, but there was still a long road ahead to get the source for this pint-sized tablet.
[David Anders] from elinux.org wrote in to tell us VTech is now giving away their source for the InnoTab (http://www.elinux.org/InnoTab), something they’ve been holding back so far. [Dave] is now verifying the VTech release is 100% complete, so if you’d like to give him a hand, drop him a line (http://elinux.org/User:Prpplague).
If you’re thinking this is your ticket to an inexpensive and powerful Linux tablet, prepare to be disappointed. The InnoTab is an ARM 11 running at 180 MHz with a paltry 64 MB of RAM. That’s not exactly top-of-the-line hardware, but at the very least you’ll be able to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTHwF1sS8_4&feature=player_embedded on it.
http://hackaday.com/2012/07/11/turning-the-innotab-into-a-linux-tablet/