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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This would be soo cool, if we could have the tablet display a live FPV stream (vga input anyone?)
and have the andropilot display a good looking OSD using the telemetry stream.
thanks! kevinh@geeksville.com. If you kick in $50 we'll be at $150.
Jack, "Wikipad 7" is really great !, no information about price :(
Yep. For all of the devices with sticks, if they used a proper HID it should just work if I (or someone else) adds the support.
Thanks Linus for your contribution! We are now at $100, once it reaches $180 I'll buy the unit. If it looks like that isn't going to happen I'll send paypal refunds.
This might be another useful device when its released,
Wikipad 7
Link: http://www.wikipad.com/Tablet/InDepth
Jack
Could this be a potential alternative ? Its costing around 136 to 136US$, with free shipping worldwide, sources are this and this.
...or you can just put one of these on a normal tablet:
http://www.alibaba.com/product-gs/461394162/Joystick_It_Arcade_Game...
If only this one had a bigger screen it would be perfect!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-lGo9Oujso
A video of the Archos Gamepad as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycrt_USEBCs
Hi Kevin,
i have sent you 20 bucks.
Regards,
Linus
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