hey that is interesting. I was trying to sort out something like that myself. can you elaborate a bit on the parts you are using?
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 7:15 AM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I was looking for a smaller, perhaps battery powered vga monitor to use > the my mvt100 that I connect to my M100. Then I saw an article last month > on Tom's Hardware about using an android tablet as a monitor on a raspberry > pi. That's nice, I thought, but I need vga. Then I remembered seeing a > vga to hdmi adapter, so after some internet purchases and a short hdmi > cable, I can use my not-so-old samsung tablet as a monitor for my m100. > Rather weird watching cpm and wordstar start up on the tablet! Just need > to figure out a neater arrangement with power cables. The hdmi capture > dongle takes its power from the tablet but the vga to hdmi thing needs 5v, > via a micro-usb connector. > > Jonathan >
