Using an old Cassiopeia PDA for my RPi?

Has anyone done this? I'm massively incompetent at this sort of thing, but my idea is to remove most of the internals from my otherwise functional but now obsolete Cassiopeia E-105, attach the LCD to the Pi's DSI connector for basic display function, and fit the connectors into the case as needed.

I'd have to find a sufficently small Linux distro, I guess, that would include support for the TFT touchscreen and still allow me to use the HDMI when I wanted that.

I guess this is pretty ambitious for an absolute newbie, but any thoughts/tips would be helpful.

GreenYamo over 13 years ago

Hello David, I have been thinking along very much the same lines, as I have a Dell X5, Acer N30 and Acer N35 that are all at the end of thier life, and I was hoping they could be interfaced. Unfortunately I don't know enough to help any more, but I will be watching this thread :-)

Steve
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bodgy over 13 years ago

I'm not sure that the DSI connector has been enabled in hardware yet.

Only going by the conversation on the R-Pi forums concering the camera interface.
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