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DIY tablet computer, maybe.
awemawson:
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I think it's generally seen as... uncouth or something to talk about price and money. But if someone says somethings cheap or expensive it's really a relative thing and it's hard to tell how they personally value things. For me £193 is definitely in the 'yowza!' territory.
Actual prices are probably important so people can see how much it's worth the idea of making your own mains power only tablet computer with a high chance of failure against just buying one. Plus calling it a tablet seems like a stretch if it's mains only. It's closer to an all-in-one PC really.
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Simon, price or cost is often highly relevant in these matters. If you're giving someone a present and discuss it's price, or bragging about your costly new car, then yes that's uncouth, but letting people know what is a realistic price in an engineering discussion I believe is absolutely fine
S. Heslop:
Boy howdy it's hot. I've been taking it easy and daydreaming about portables some more. I think the ideal device is probably the slider style phones they were coming out with before the stupid iphone ruined it and every manufacturer turned towards big solid cheap to manufacture touchscreen slabs.
Here's a doodle of a really bad idea for a chunky handheld games console.
Not a great idea at all really. I'll need to re-think it a bit. But something i've been hung up on for years is how... nice DSLR cameras feel. I think something with a similar form factor that's better than what I came up with might make a neat novelty device, if a goofy one. I believe those dirt cheap Rapberry Pi's are capable of playing the only game that matters - Doom (1993). Or more specifically the custom levels for Doom and its sourceports that people have been making for the last 25 years, refining their art. So it could be relatively cheap to slap together something silly some day.
S. Heslop:
This is going a bit slow since i'm still waiting on stuff to be delivered. The cable came today though.
Got a few things soldered onto this tiny Tiny board, including the 3V voltage regulator. It's the first time i've actually soldered anything surface mount and it wen't just fine. Probably helps that it's still on the large side of surface mount!
I really hope I got the right wires in the right holes. The guy i'm following was lucky enough to have them colour coded. I went over them a few times and labelled them. I could perhaps test it on my desktop PC but it took so much to get the weird Chinese drivers that came with my current graphics tablet working that I'm not keen on risking anything that might break them. They still stop working when I open certain programs.
Here's the setup I used to record the soldering. All those weird extra adjustments on the legs finally came in useful. Check out all that "useful looking junk" in the shelves.
vtsteam:
Now that's my kind of clutter! :dremel:
S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: vtsteam on July 17, 2018, 10:06:32 PM ---Now that's my kind of clutter! :dremel:
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I swear I just cleared the desk a week ago. I can't figure out where it comes from but its the same stuff every time.
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