Dave wrote: > No I didn't send this to the wrong list .. :-) > > I am seeing a lot of $200-300 Android powered 10 inch touch screen > tablets popping up now. > > Is there any way to use one of these as an EMC2/Linux display terminal > or as a client to an EMC2 PC ?? > Most likely, these are not Intel X86 architecture CPUs, but many are ARM Cortex versions. So far, there isn't much RTAI support for them, although the guy at RTAI is supposedly working on it, but it has been a LONG time. I provided him a Beagle Board at my cost, so I'm not real happy with the situation.
There are some other real time kernel patches out there, but they probably do not give as low a latency as RTAI. (I could be wrong on that.) But, to run EMC2 directly on the tablet, it needs some kind of I/O interface that is accessible. These things certainly were not made with that in mind, but there might be access to something inside that could provide such connectivity. If the tablet computer has an Ethernet, then it certainly could be used as a remote display. But, you can get an Atom motherboard with parallel port, memory, SSD and a touch screen for that kind of money (~ $300). This is known to work, I have one. The computer is an Intel D510MO board, you have to add memory and a SATA disk drive. The touch screen is a "car computer" 4 x 7" screen. It all runs off 12 V DC. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Create and publish websites with WebMatrix Use the most popular FREE web apps or write code yourself; WebMatrix provides all the features you need to develop and publish your website. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ms-webmatrix-sf _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
