I just ran across this this morning on Engadget, Wired online. It immediately struck me as almost a "holy grail" of tablets to use for a ground control station. It has plenty of buttons, and 2 joysticks. We already have the excellent Andropilot app. Now we have built in controls... Maybe we should pool some money to send one of these to Kevin Hester.
The only problem is the specs are a little lightweight:
- 7" 1024x600 display, no mention of brightness
- Android 4.1 Jellybean
- Arm Coretex A9 dual-core 1.6 GHz
- 8GB Flash, 1GB Ram, with a microSD card slot
The really good news is it's only $170. It's definitely worth experimenting with.
I'd kick in $20 to send one to Kevin Hester if he's interested in developing it for AndroPilot use. Anybody else?
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I have four tabs; Penta IS701C, Penta IS709C, Pipo S2, ZTE V9C. Andropilot, DroidPlanner, VR Droid RC works fine with first three tabs.
Kevin & All, Just gor my Samsung 8" Note and Andropilot works great on that. It finally have that normal Micro USB port too so no more that big bulky iPhone style connector.
hi kevin, the Asus tablets available in this part of teh world do not have GPRS. i am sure i have to go for asus tablet with GPRS connectivity.
hi kevin, can u recommend a 7" tablet which i should buy since you have excperimented so much with android tablets. i will be buying a tablet next week for android GCS. i do not want to make mistake.
hi kevin, now which tablet do you recommend is best for installing android planner. there has been some confusion regardin the host USB port. i thought before i buy i should consult you since you have gone through couple of tablets. i do not want joysticks since i always like to fly with radio control sticks.
I just came back from Hong Kong Electronics fair and over there tested maybe 30-40 Android tablets. And did not find any tablets that works well with FTDI cables and radios. At least none of them did not report that USB was connected. When I connect to my Samsung Note II it always says that USB device connected but none of these did it.
It looks like one company has made original Android kernel and then 100 companies copied it for their own tablets and none of them have support for FTDI chip.
We are working with few companies to get it working so stay tuned on progress.
Saw many of these gaming tablets there too. They really look great.
Great to hear Kevin !
Congrats then !
Kevin, you said earlier that once enough money is reached, you will ask people not send money anymore !
hi kevin, can u please provide ur paypal account so that i can keep my committment.
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