On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:13:17AM +0100, martin.kopp...@gmx.de wrote:
> Each time I look at that screen I wish I could also have a bit more scree
> area in a glider, too.
> WM5 devices are usually much smaller, and twice as large would probably be
> enough.
>From my quest research for the ultimate XCSoar device:
There are several soaring solutions for WM5 based devices with larger screens:
* Craggyaero [1] (not touch screen based)
* Oudie [2] (need to throw seeyou away)
* LX MINI MAP [3] (small but optimized for sunlight)
* Some liliput tablet: [5]
Additionally since now Android is a very realistic platform for xcsoar,
the choice of devices has just skyrocketed.
There are plenty of tablets that run android. [4]
> I have never experimented with XCSoar on PC.
> I do have a MotionComputing A4 sized TabletPC at work, but it's heavy, bulky
> and drains a real lot of power.
> There are medium sized PC based tablets out there.
> Has any of you tried these in a glider yet?
Its unlikley that you will find a pc based solution not taxing your
glider's power infrastructure too much.
X86 CPUs are notoriously power inefficient. ARM based devices have
greater milage.
That being said.. there are some pc boards which are interesing: [6]
The pcengine boards suck about 5 Watts and they can even run a full
blown operating system. (defenetly NOT recommended.) (you don't want to
be installing updates while on task...)
However that does not solve the display problem.
While there are several sunlight readable displays:
* Pixel QI [7] (only avaiable in 10 inch.. still requires a pc)
* Mirasol [8] (available q1 2011)
The later being the most interesting. Mirasol displays are e-paper
screens with color and a screen update rate of about 12 frames per
second. They require not backlighting so they are very power efficent.
These will be built into e-readers and hopefully available cheap.
Once these become available I think it will be possible to create the
ultimate soaring instrument with xcsoar.
- Folken
[1] http://www.craggyaero.com/
[2] http://www.naviter.si/seeyou-mobile/announcing-oudie.php?Itemid=80
[3] http://www.lxnavigation.si/avionics/
[4] http://www.andro-tablets.org/
[5] http://flarm.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=426
[6] http://pcengines.ch/
[7] http://www.makershed.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=MKPQ01
[8] http://www.mirasoldisplays.com/
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