I should have killed this thread once I realized that the GP series of palmtops (hardware) was not opensource. I would never hack a commerical product to the extent of adding a new screen (when the old one is soldered it) and adding new SD cards (when I have no schematics.)
Having dropped the...
Thanks for that answer. I had heard a rumor that the hardware design was open-source. That must have been in error.
As for the details...those depends on the schematics, don't they? It's impossible to rework a hardware platform if you don't have the schematics.
I've interfaced SD card to Atmel...
I appologize if I seemed to imply that a GP2X or GP32X could be hacked for under $100. I meant that the basic concept of the $100 laptop (a cheaper-than-the-current-standard laptop-like system) could be built around the same core as these systems.
As for my ideas of hacking hardware, it seems...
I'm convinced that a machine with a laptop-sized touch screen, the guts of a PDA, and a stack of SD slots would be a winner.
I'd love to have a wi-fi tablet that allows web surfing at any hotspot. Touching the screen would handle 95% of my input, but an on-screen keyboard or a wireless keyobard...