Raspberry Pi has no display, no keyboard. If you add those, you far exceed the cost of a 7" tablet and you still have a pile of stuff that barely fits in a shoe box let alone in a decent looking enclosure and that you would not want to leave on a table unattended. A cheap Android tablet is hard to beat if you need a display and keyboard and having played quite a bit with both, my RPis are still all in the same box where they came in while a number of Android tablets are used throughout the house as remote controls for a number of things. The most recent is a$49 7" Fire tablet to use also as a controller. Nice piece of hardware for the cost. Writing Android apps using a tool like B4A is a lot of fun, with a Visual Studio like environment.
Of course, if you need a lot of discrete IOs, the RPi is very handy. Didier KO4BB On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 12:00 PM shouldbe q931 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:00 PM ew via time-nuts <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Good Morning DidierThank you for your response. The "ONLY" thing we would > > like to do is record and display the info coming out of the RS post. To > day > > making long term observations ties up a PC or Laptop with fans and a > > HP53132. Gone for a week the main concern is fan failure. Store the info > on > > the Tablet in a SD chip or in it and when ready download through the USB > > port that we use for importing data to a memory stick for further > processing > > > <snipped for brevity> > > Rather than a tablet, might I be so bold as suggesting using a fanless PC, > such as a RaspberryPi (other small fanless computers are available). > > Cheers > > Arne > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.
