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Challenge: Raspberry PI tablet

Philius over 13 years ago

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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Former Member over 13 years ago

All you need is a touch screen display and you would pretty much be done. The pi costs about $30 anyway and the screen would cost the same. That's a $60 tablet. Pretty damn impressive if you ask me
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Philius over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

It's the details that make the difference - schematics, battery, wifi, touch-screen, display, driver software, desktop integration etc have to all "just work" for a RasPi to do what you take for granted with a mobile phone.

Then there are those connectors - they have to come off if you want to reduce the thickness.

Sometimes things should work but it turns out they don't - not without a lot more work than it looked like at the start.

I've got one myself - http://philipashmore.blogspot.ie/2012/06/wifi-bargain-hunting.html.

I'm sure Ben Heck has some horror stories himeself - I know I'd like to hear them!
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Philius over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

It's the details that make the difference - schematics, battery, wifi, touch-screen, display, driver software, desktop integration etc have to all "just work" for a RasPi to do what you take for granted with a mobile phone.

Then there are those connectors - they have to come off if you want to reduce the thickness.

Sometimes things should work but it turns out they don't - not without a lot more work than it looked like at the start.

I've got one myself - http://philipashmore.blogspot.ie/2012/06/wifi-bargain-hunting.html.

I'm sure Ben Heck has some horror stories himeself - I know I'd like to hear them!
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