<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span></span></div><div dir="ltr">But for $10 more, why not get the Model 2B. It's a lot faster than the B+. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152038" style="font-family: Courier New, courier, monaco, monospace, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152037" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152040" dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152039" face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> lloyd mitchell via aprssig <aprssig@tapr.org><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Jason KG4WSV <kg4wsv@gmail.com>; TAPR APRS Mailing List <aprssig@tapr.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 19, 2015 5:44 AM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [aprssig] Car radio APRS display?<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152036"><br><div id="yiv1425228159"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152046"><div dir="ltr">AND the price of the Pi B+ just dropped to $25. It will show at MCM as such in a few days<div><br clear="none"></div><div>KO4Lloyd</div></div><div class="yiv1425228159gmail_extra" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152045"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv1425228159gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152044">On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Jason KG4WSV via aprssig <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv1425228159gmail_quote" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152048" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid;"><span class="yiv1425228159" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1431754857514_152047">On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 10:04 PM, Max Harper via aprssig<br clear="none">
<<a href="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:aprssig@tapr.org">aprssig@tapr.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">
> You might be waiting a while on the CHIP computer. And the price will be<br clear="none">
> more than $9 since the CHIP has no built-in support for video.<br clear="none">
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</span>IIRC it does have composite built in.<br clear="none">
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But it is kickstarter vaporware, not a real thing yet. maybe it will<br clear="none">
exist in a year. I hope this isn't one of those that fails to see the<br clear="none">
light of day, but $9 seems a bit optimistic.<br clear="none">
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> The Raspberry<br clear="none">
> Pi model 2B is hard to beat for $35 dollars, is available now, has a lot of<br clear="none">
> support and<br clear="none">
> does have composite video built-in.<br clear="none">
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</span>composite video is supremely unimpressive for a computer display,<br clear="none">
unless maybe you've got a Commodore 64 still lying around. IMO it'll<br clear="none">
take dedicated software development especially for a small screen to<br clear="none">
make it useable. Even xastir with the small screen build doesn't<br clear="none">
looks so good at NTSC resolution.<br clear="none">
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If there is an APRS app (that runs under linux) that works well on a<br clear="none">
low res display I'd like to hear about it. Unfortunately modern<br clear="none">
software developers tend to use ecosystems that assume a bajillion<br clear="none">
pixels are available.<br clear="none">
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-Jason<br clear="none">
kg4wsv<br clear="none">
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