My colleagues and I have got an interesting little prototype hardware/software project that would follow these loose requirements/specs/implementation details:
- Hardware:
- Take simple user input from a couple of buttons, maybe a dial
- Give some textual output to the user, a 3-line LED would suffice but fancier is OK
- Powerful x86 CPU required
- Software
- Windows-based OS
- Simple, easy to program to API for LED/LCD pannel input & output. Preferable Java, or another high-level language.
- No monitor connected in most use cases
It looks to me like my project is exactly what the HTPC folks are doing, but after an hour of Googling and researching, I can't seem to find any specifics on programming the hardware for HTPC cases from Silverstone, et al.
Can someone point me in the right direction?