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CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by kodah »

This is very cool. I'm really looking forward to the day that I have a Linux tablet with something like an S-Pen. Every year is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, but I'm ready to add tablet and maybe phone to that too.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by zamadatix »

hosteur wrote: post #30
aboringusername wrote: post #11

Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting…

> But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable Care to elaborate a bit on why ? I have been using n for years at home and at my office without any problems. It seems much faster than b and g which I had before.

Primary issue with N tends to be client density, secondary speed, but really both are related anyways. Also the compute module is single antenna, most N devices were at least 2x2 which doubles the throughput. I.e. expect 100 Mbps half duplex throughput to be a "very good" connection on such a device.

That being said the device actually supports WiFi 5, the page just seems to be out of date. Still only 1x1 though which is the bigger travesty.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by crazygringo »

I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead.

I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect.

Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet I'm aware of is the Boox, but their models are all $400-800, which is way too expensive (when similar tech in a Kindle is $80).

All I want is a relatively low-power, low-memory, low-storage touchscreen e-paper tablet (i.e. specs of an old Kindle) that I can run Linux and a WebKit browser on.

And I want them to be cheap enough in bulk so that other companies and startups can build home devices on top of them to resell.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by darknavi »

crazygringo wrote: post #47

I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…

Yes! I want a Home Assistant panel in my house but don't want to hack together some old Android monstrosity.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by dastx »

StevePerkins wrote: post #39

Two-hundred bucks is basically "impulse purchase" territory, but I'm nevertheless struggling to see the use case here. If you're into maker projects with Raspberry Pis, then I'm not sure what this does for you. It's a Pi already built into a consumer device. Not seemingly a platform for new maker projects. If you want a tablet with a Linux kernel buried in there somewhere, then there's probably a thousand Android opt…

Their software and hardware are open source. Far cry from alternative android tablets. Either way, building a tablet, even based on a raspberry pi, is no easy feat.
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