I think flourescents are worth noting. LCD monitors use them, not EL. they have a prism and a strangely focused fresnel lens to spread it perfectly across the screen. very expensive, VERY bright and very hot, but very nice. Also requires a special power supply.

LED and EL are the two we will probably be using though, as flourescents aren't very suited to carrying around. They are a valid type of backlight though.

Why not have hardware greyscale? Basically, it is the same thing we do with software grey, but the LCD Hardware Controller outputs lower and higher voltages, using Pulse Width Modulation (basically, the only way for digital stuff to do analog output) and that is exactly what we do with software Grey, except that the controller can do it much faster. Combining hardware and software can get you around 64-level greyscale with a fast calc.

You can't buy 1G cards anymore, and sdhc doesn't take any more than reg sd. Make it sdhc or people will hate it, if you have SD at all. SDHC will not take any more effort, software or hardware wise.

Drool....I just wish I could run it on my nspire.

Unfortunately, ext* will require the PC that you hook to to support ext* which is not an easy filesystem for windows. There is an ext2/3 reader for windows, but ext4 is incompatible

Fat32 would be much easier, as it has much broader support. Ext3/4 might work for a main File System, if we don't plan on doing direct linking (just through SD swapping instead)

I think, Desktop-wise, we should have the calculator by default run a math desktop (very simple, nothing fancy) and for users who want a real desktop, offer support and give an easy package to install, say, xfce or some other lightweight desktop. KDE and Gnome will probably be too much for the OTArm. We should still have terminal access, even if it is rather buried.

Don't give root access easily! make it so the average user can do what they want, while making the root password only really available to those who know what they are doing. People who don't know what root means shouldn't notice that it is required for anything either.

On a side note, OmniTech is a brand name for flash drives. I saw some at staples. Also, 3 other companies show up on google. Maybe we could change it to something more unique, or maybe leave it at omnimaga Calculators!

Lol, DJ the site blacklisted AOL?

Everybody knew they were evil. But I didn't know they were THAT evil!

4 looks best, if you're going for a guy.

Wow. Those songs are cool!