Building simplicidade.org: notes, projects, and occasional rants

Family project

So my kids are 1.3 and 3 years old now, and the oldest one loves a computer game that the place we have breakfast at on weekends has, based on a touch screen interface.

It has a set of games, like painting black and white layouts, filling the spaces with colors, basic memory games (6 cards down, with pictures, pick two alike to make them stick), and differences between pictures games.

I just got a quote for 15" TFT touch screens. Including a fan-less Via-based computer, with 500MB ram, and 30Gb disk, and a license of Windows XP, the whole deal comes about 1300€...

Hmms... I wonder if I can make the same games using HTML and the canvas stuff? I would build a full-screen web-kit, they would have a home-page for games, photos, what not...