I don't want to run EMC2 on the tablet, but it sure would be nice if there was some way to use these tablets as a client connected to a PC running EMC2.
Just comparing apples to apples (sort of) they are now selling 10" Android tablets for $200 yet the cheapest dumb 10" touchscreen at MP3car.com is 229.00 and that is a USB connected screen which I am not sure would even work with Linux. A real screen with a 16:9 ratio area and a real VGA input starts at $249 and goes up from there. I suspect that tablets will continue to fall in price but I am not so sure about small monitors. Are there better places to buy small touch screen monitors? Dave On 4/2/2011 9:31 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
