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CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by freedomben »

charlesju wrote: post #87

Call me dull, but why don't you just build an android app and buy a Fire Tablet to power your project. A Fire Tablet is probably on par for power and is fully integrated with a touch screen and battery, and with discounts it costs almost or cheaper than a bare Pi. I feel like we bend over backwards to try to use the Raspberry Pi to do cool things, but a lot of these projects can be developed more easily and powered b…

I'm guessing you've never tried to modify a Fire tablet. It's an exercise in extreme frustration. I will never "buy" a Fire tablet again. I say "buy" in quotes because the way Amazon locks down the tablet means I clearly don't own it. It's just a long term pre-paid lease.

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by crimsonalucard »

What I really want is to use the Rasperry Pi as both a computer system and a throw away embedded module.

So I would want something like this when I program the Rasperry Pi to say control a robotic arm somewhere. Then I want to be able to pull the rasperry pi out of this tablet and actually place it in the robotic arm module.

So if I have several projects going on like auto fish feeder and / or auto plant waterer.... I want to be able to bring the tablet around attach the rasperry pi to it too make changes.

While the demo looks like this is what is happening I'm assuming that the final product is basically like a phone, the pi is eternally stuck inside the tablet?

$200 is too much for something like a auto plant waterer but $30 for the pi is perfect for this. Therefore make the tablet interface a module to the pi. That's the whole point right? Otherwise why use the pi over my phone? there's no point.

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by zelon88 »

penkia wrote: post #83
zelon88 wrote: post #80

Man this has come a long way. I remember my first Pi I wanted to do this SOO badly. I wound up doing it with a 48w/hr battery and a 7" non-touch automotive backup camera screen. [1] This was just after the launch of RPi1 and well before Adafruit had all the cool parts that just work out of the box. [1] https://www.honestrepair.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Micr...

fellow veteran, what happened to this cool device? :-)

I've still got it and I believe it's still got Wheezy on it. Last time I tried she fired up. I've gone through abut 7 Pi's since, but this one will never be re-purposed. This is it's destiny.

The coolest part about it was that the screen, computer, and battery were all modular with velcro and electrical plugs. So the metal case had the regulators and Pi, the black case held the batteries. In under a minute I could remove the screen and Pi from the battery pack and velcro it into all into my car.

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by groundlogic »

After working with people in Taiwan for the past two years: I love the creativity coming out of there.

Compared to mainland China, people in Taiwan seem more eager to integrate with the world. Open source is popular in mainland China too, but English is not.

This thing they're building seems awesome.

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by aasasd »

kdmoyers wrote: post #81

Pardon if this is a dumb question, but does this thing look like it could decode and play MP3 files? With a little power left over for a simple user interface? I'm interesting in making a specialized MP3 player of sorts.

In my consumer experience, playing mp3 or most other vaguely-popular formats takes negligible power compared to the display or modern app/UI logic.

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by aasasd »

opless wrote: post #10

I'm quite interested in how you integrate power management into the PI. There's very little in the way of 'real' power management solutions for the PI and a myriad of 'power down when the battery is low' solutions ... is a decent, cheap, reliable fuel gauge hat just too much to ask for? :D

Noob here, does this mean that Pi doesn't throttle down CPUs and other chippery? (I'd think that this is solved a long time ago between Linux and ARM, though.)

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by jdkdk »

groundlogic wrote: post #94

After working with people in Taiwan for the past two years: I love the creativity coming out of there. Compared to mainland China, people in Taiwan seem more eager to integrate with the world. Open source is popular in mainland China too, but English is not. This thing they're building seems awesome.

Learn Chinese?

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by groundlogic »

jdkdk wrote: post #97
groundlogic wrote: post #94

After working with people in Taiwan for the past two years: I love the creativity coming out of there. Compared to mainland China, people in Taiwan seem more eager to integrate with the world. Open source is popular in mainland China too, but English is not. This thing they're building seems awesome.

Learn Chinese?

That's like a 2-4 year task, it seems.

Re: CutiePi – All-in-one Raspberry Pi tablet

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Post by aasasd »

Barging in with a vaguely related question here. Could anyone please illuminate a noob, briefly, as to what's the situation with open-source drivers for displays? Because, judging by the practical unportability of Android on phones, it looks like a ‘piss off’ from big boys of the market. (Or is the Android's problem more with radio chips?)
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