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I'd say the form factor. The raspberry pi is too thick for a tablet.
If you ripped off the ethernet and usb ports would it still be too thick? Maybe the hdmi also.
But it's not scalable, and I'm not particularly good at soldering. ;-)
What's the biggest difference between this and a regular tablet running linux (I'm not sure they exist but I'm assuming most android tablets can run any Linux?). Is it the addition of GPIO, or somethinbg else?
1) you have access to the Raspbian and Pi ecosystem 2) it has actual usable UI, commercial-grade I would say
The whole idea of this project is to help makers to be portable with their projects. The display is optional.
What's the biggest difference between this and a regular tablet running linux (I'm not sure they exist but I'm assuming most android tablets can run any Linux?). Is it the addition of GPIO, or somethinbg else?
This is definitely not the case. There are almost no android tablets that people have even bothered figuring out how to boot normal linux on, and I'm not sure there are ANY that have complete driver support.
Other than this your best bet would probably be to try to find an x86 tablet from 5 years ago and even those are a huge pain to use linux on.
I would literally kill for a tablet that did nothing but very very very very good active pen stuff. I bought a Dell latitude tablet and while it's good enough (one note is also just good enough) that I don't regret it I've been wondering whether I could put together something that just focused on digitization using something a pi. are there any plans to support an active pen?
I've heard good things about https://remarkable.com
What's the biggest difference between this and a regular tablet running linux (I'm not sure they exist but I'm assuming most android tablets can run any Linux?). Is it the addition of GPIO, or somethinbg else?
Value proposition time haha :-) 1) you have access to the Raspbian and Pi ecosystem 2) it has actual usable UI, commercial-grade I would say The whole idea of this project is to help makers to be portable with their projects. The display is optional.
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Value proposition time haha :-) 1) you have access to the Raspbian and Pi ecosystem 2) it has actual usable UI, commercial-grade I would say The whole idea of this project is to help makers to be portable with their projects. The display is optional.
So the point of the device is to be able to develop pi stuff which is then most likely used on a regular pi when deployed? Am I interpreting that right?
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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
I find it refreshing and frightening that target price is not known when attempting to build a commercial grade electronics. Is component selection conducted without any price consideration?
However, when you go into production and order parts from distributors, you will usually get special deals which can lower the price of your product. Problems can also appear if one of your single source components is out of stock, then you will have to wait (probably a long time) for it to get back in stock, choose an alternative (probably more expensive) component, or buy it on the gray market.
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I've heard good things about https://remarkable.com
yes me too but that is basically as expensive as my dell tablet for just writing? it seems like to high a premium (yes i know i said i would kill).
It's really a cool device. I mean if I can do whatever I want on a handheld device, I'd be ready to pay 150 euros for it. Android phones are useless if the OS is a walled garden.
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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.
Maybe the totally wrong place to ask, but that display looks great. Any ideas where to get one of those?
