On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Steve,

At the moment, we're only focusing on the small size(s). And the current version is monochrome only.

We're a very small team, so we aren't able to add features as fast as we'd like to. Over the next few months, our priority is going to be reaching out to the market, and ramping up production.

But we plan to bring out bigger displays later, as the design is flexible enough to accommodate that. We also plan to add a public API to support external developers. We also plan to add full-color capability in future versions.

What kind of API technology would you like to see? And what kind of applications do you imagine developing software for?

Regards,

Joseph.

Let me just clarify about the API.

For now, the display does not have a high-level public API, but we are considering developing one in the near future. However, we have a display manager application (that runs on a dektop computer) that uses a low-level API to communicate with the display.

This low-level API is used to communicate with the display via a computer's serial port. The data that is sent to the display is text that is formatted in a custom procedural markup language. The display has an interpreter that reads in this text, and displays it. It currently support a "batch" mode, where the data is read in, and displayed, in batches. We are currently testing a "real-time" mode (which is usable for streaming live data), which reads in, and displays data, as it is comes in through the serial port.

I have attached a preview of the markup language documentation, to give an idea.

Joseph.