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Challenge: Raspberry PI tablet

Philius

I've seen sites that sell the parts seperately, but I'd rather leave it to an expert such as yourself to figure out how to put them together!

A 10" full HD touch-screen display and WiFi would be awesome with the R-PI!

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  • in reply to colecago

    Me too.

    But the point of my post is, I was looking for a Raspberry-Pi "shield" - see http://shieldlist.org/ (it's an Arduino term for an add-on) - something a moderately skilled DIYer could attempt to build from a kit, the advantage being that they could decide on the screen size and resolution based on their budget or whatever they already had lying around.

     

    Wifi is easy - that's a dongle.

    The screen is a tricky part - it would probably need more batterys.

    According to http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-43484/l/raspberry-pi-gpio-expansion--low-level-peripherals, there's a way to connect a LVDS display - it's called a "MIPI CSI-2" on that page although a pin diagram would help here.

     

    This thing could really be a camera interface - the document isn't clear.

     

    The alternative - carrying around a HDMI display + petrol generator doesn't really appeal to me as an iPad alternative.

  • in reply to Philius

    The chalk-elec board would be a shield.  I imagine it would connect to the DSI interface pins and output LVDS for LCD displays, that way you can choose whatever LCD monitor you want.  Chalk-elec even sells 10.1" capacitive touch screen kits for $134 which connect to the panda/beagle boards, I imagine once they get their hands on some Pi's they will finish the Pi version up and you can either buy their kit, or buy just the controller for $34 and choose whatever screen fits your specs and their max/min resolution specs.