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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 the_seraphim »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #7

I really like the idea of an open hackable tablet but the screen resolution of 1280x800 might be limiting. My digital life revolves around my 11" iPad Pro (except for my GPU rig for ML and coding, and a MacBook for light weight dev and also writing) and the hires display is important.

So take their plans and swap out the display for a better one?

its hackable means its also customizable.

also maybe once release is successful they can offer flavour variants with higher resolution screens, speciality hardware i dunno...

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

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Post by krn »

penkia wrote: post #8
jasoneckert wrote: post #4

I like this project. However, I wish that under the FAQ for "What's the target price?" they had a better answer than "We'll know better in DVT stage, meanwhile please find the bill of materials in design files for detail." Who is going to Google each of the 89 components listed in the bill of materials to get a rough guess (since it doesn't list price info)?

hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, "we don't know" is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn't ordered any parts. For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: https://i.imgur.com/anUASlT.jpg

Usually products are priced not based on the direct costs to produce them, but based on the value they provide to the end-user.

What is the target price range you expect people to pay for such product, above which it wouldn't be worth producing?

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

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Post by penkia »

owenversteeg wrote: post #17

Looks very cool, for sure. But am I the only one who is confused why they created a main board instead of just using a Pi model B? Most of the things on their board (usb, hdmi, wifi, Bluetooth, card slot, etc) are already there in a Pi. Especially since the boards are about $90 each...

Form factor is one, also proper power management is very hard to get right with Pis.

Of course we made our first prototype with Pi3, and it ended up looking like this: https://i.imgur.com/gqUAdDa.jpg :P

Oh by the way we're not using HDMI display so it'll be cheaper (and thinner) too.

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

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Post by penkia »

krn wrote: post #22
penkia wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hi, project creator penk here, thanks for the comment, "we don't know" is the honest answer we can give at this moment, since we hadn't ordered any parts. For your reference the first batch (10pcs) EVT boards is about ~90USD a piece: https://i.imgur.com/anUASlT.jpg

Usually products are priced not based on the direct costs to produce them, but based on the value they provide to the end-user. What is the target price range you expect people to pay for such product, above which it wouldn't be worth producing?

As an open source project (we're not a company) we'll try our best, hope it won't affect by the trade tariff? :P

For price range I would say kano computer kit touch or raspad tablet are all good products and provide good reference.

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

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Post by l1k »

The screen on the frontpage photo says "armv7l". I think that's only printed on the Raspberry Pi 4. The specs say it's a Compute Module 3+, which I'd expect to print "armv7".

So either the photo is not genuine or the pictured device is using a Raspberry Pi 4 (possibly a pre-release Compute Module thereof).

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

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Post by penkia »

mark_l_watson wrote: post #7

I really like the idea of an open hackable tablet but the screen resolution of 1280x800 might be limiting. My digital life revolves around my 11" iPad Pro (except for my GPU rig for ML and coding, and a MacBook for light weight dev and also writing) and the hires display is important.

Will see if we can source any higher resolution MIPI DSI display parts, the current one's cheaper though ;-)

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

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Post by penkia »

l1k wrote: post #26

The screen on the frontpage photo says "armv7l". I think that's only printed on the Raspberry Pi 4. The specs say it's a Compute Module 3+, which I'd expect to print "armv7". So either the photo is not genuine or the pictured device is using a Raspberry Pi 4 (possibly a pre-release Compute Module thereof).

hi, on Pi4 it would be something like "Linux raspberrypi 4.19.46-v7l+", it's totally confusing.

More info regarding Pi3 arch https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=140572

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

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Post by petecox »

penkia wrote: post #13
skymer wrote: post #11

This uses the CM3 Lite. According to a blog post in January, 2019 on the release of the CM3+, the “legacy” CM1, CM3 and CM3 Lite products are considered “not recommended for new designs”. [1] https://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2019/01/introducing-the-ra...

hey, thanks for the comment, we know that CM3 and CM3+ are pin-to-pin compatible, so will switch to it when launch! :-) (finger crossed for CM4?)

Great feature! End-user upgradeable simply by swapping a device's compute module with a newer iteration from RPi.

c.f. EOMA68

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

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Post by squeezingswirls »

penkia wrote: post #9
martin_a wrote: post #2

All the best for your project! Just these days I was wondering which tablet would be able to run Ubuntu Touch or something alike and while support for "real" tablets seems to be quite rare, there are quite a few tablet projects based on the Raspberry Pi. I hope this will continue.

As a former Canonical (Ubuntu Phone team) engineer I do like the ideas of indie OS, be it Ubuntu Touch, Open webOS, or even LineageOS Android for Pi. We'll definitely work with communities closely to bring more options to CutiePi. After all, free software is all about choices.

Btw maybe it might be of your interest to know that some people are porting Ubuntu Touch by UBports to Pinephone and Librem 5 phones, and some others are trying to port it to Raspberry Pi 3 /4.

https://ubports.com/

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