Check out the 23" Android 'tablet' I made for $600

[Aikouka]

I finally got a chance to see the video, and I'm curious... which dev board did you use?

Here's the site where I was looking at them:
http://www.arm.com/support/university/development-platforms/cortex-a8-development-platforms.php

I considered picking up a Panda Board (A9) or a Sony Mali-based board. I thought the Sony board was kinda nice because it has a built-in SIM card slot.

EDIT:

http://www.igloocommunity.org/

This one looks kinda nifty too. A dual-core A9 + Mali 400 GPU.

 

[waggy]

That's what she said.

soon as i hit enter i knew this was comeing..

 

[mmntech]

That's what she said.

If you're going to use that Avatar, come on...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVQT3638TZA

 

[SKORPI0]

Watched a review on the Acer touch screen monitor used by the OP.

Didn't know that Windows 7 was to "touch screen complaint", I wonder if OS X is the same. Looks like a new project to do since I like to tweak/tinker and play with gadgets.


avatar change per request.

 

[davmat787]

Good job OP. This got me thinking, they have these all in one touch pc's now. If they could make one thin enough, you could easily load it with your x86 operating system of choice and have a mongo tablet basically.

 

[KlokWyze]

Pretty cool OP!

Nice man! Now make a Anroid coffee table out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMIynrliB_g

That's awesome....

 

[FelixDeCat]

With that many views in 24 hours expect Youtube to approach you to put ads on your video. I did almost two years ago and made a whole $20 on 27,000 views. You dont get paid until you reach $100 though.

Wont pay much but its a good start to partnership.

 

[Red Squirrel]

That is pretty awesome. Just need to upgrade to a screen that covers a whole wall to give it that sci fi movie effect. OMG... think you could get that working with a smart board? I think it would be epic!

 

[Tristicus]

With that many views in 24 hours expect Youtube to approach you to put ads on your video. I did almost two years ago and made a whole $20 on 27,000 views. You dont get paid until you reach $100 though.

Wont pay much but its a good start to partnership.

Might have something to do with it being listed http://www.androidtablets.net/forum...-inch-homemade-android-tablet.html#post132182 and a few other places.

 

[Engineer]

soon as i hit enter i knew this was comeing..

That's what she said too! :biggrin::$

 

[mnewsham]

Pretty cool OP!



That's awesome....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmbW8zRrRbs

Samsung SUR40 (Running microsoft surface 2.0)

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

sweet setup.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

From youtube lol

"thats so fake its just a 23inch acer sccreen with a recorded video on it"

 

[shocksyde]

50,000 hits on YouToobs? Yowza!

 

[BabaBooey]

So what is the point,it is a choppy android desktop as that is far from portable and looks like it would give you carpal tunnel syndrome from all the twisting of the wrist ...




To each Thier own I guess ...

 

[Martin]

I finally got a chance to see the video, and I'm curious... which dev board did you use?

Here's the site where I was looking at them:
http://www.arm.com/support/university/development-platforms/cortex-a8-development-platforms.php

I considered picking up a Panda Board (A9) or a Sony Mali-based board. I thought the Sony board was kinda nice because it has a built-in SIM card slot.

EDIT:

http://www.igloocommunity.org/

This one looks kinda nifty too. A dual-core A9 + Mali 400 GPU.

I did use a pandaboard . There are a few boards like that out there, but the panda seems to be the one with the biggest community/documentation around it.

 

[Martin]

Oh that was you? I saw your project on reddit... you're famous!

And yet, reality tv show offers still haven't come in!

 

[Martin]

it's neat....but why didn't you just use a PC again? couldn't you build a tiny, tiny little system that would be infinitely more powerful?

It would, but Android currently only runs on ARM. There's a community port to x86 but I think it's a little hacky and incomplete.

Android was pretty much a must, since Windows isn't built with touch in mind and no apps would work well.

 

[Exterous]

I did use a pandaboard . There are a few boards like that out there, but the panda seems to be the one with the biggest community/documentation around it.

Where did you get the touch screen?

 

[lsv]

It seems really slow, like each press takes .25 seconds to register. :\

 

[mmntech]

Where did you get the touch screen?

I'm guessing he's using this one, since it's the only 23'' Acer touch screen I could find.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009303

That's pretty cool that you can buy an entire ARM-based motherboard for $174. That would make a sweet kitchen computer.

 

[Zargon]

It seems really slow, like each press takes .25 seconds to register. :\

yeah its an ARM and the montior is over half the cost

wtf is with some you and your expectations?


go try and buy something like that and see what it will cost


this makes me want to buy that monitor and use use my random matx stuff to do a win8 touch pc

 

[SKORPI0]

I'm guessing he's using this one, since it's the only 23'' Acer touch screen I could find.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009303

Might be a later model, but not the same OP used (discontinued).
Post#12 already mentioned what it is.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/produc...uchscreen.html


http://pandaboard.org/

 

[zinfamous]

Respect

Neat! Where did you get the touch panel from?

it appears to to be built in the exact same cheapo Acer monitor that I have...so I, too, would like to know how to do this to my screen.

 

[zinfamous]

Nice man! Now make a Anroid coffee table out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMIynrliB_g

Holy fuck

wait, why is that dated 2007?