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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Odd about the usb OTG, as according to Archos it does not support it. It's not mentioned anywhere in any specs or docs I saw for it. I work for a partner of archos, that's why I could just go an pull a unit to play around with.
The odd thing is, I have one OTG cable which does physically not fit unto the socket, from a previous archos unit I used to have. I'll check when I'm at work tomorrow, we should have boxloads of OTG cables around so I should be able to test this. Generally archos are quite precise with the specs but it could well be they didn't have it in the first OS build or something like this and have since added it.
Kevin, sorry no, I don't know of any sources. I assumed it would be available at that price. Maybe it just needs a bit of time to hit stores here? Or take up Olivier's offer?
Hi Kevin,
Try this link, http://www.amazon.fr/Archos-Gamepad-Tablette-tactile-Processeur/dp/...
Amazon France has it at less than 140 €, don't know about sending it to the US, but I can help with it if you want...
OK...sent Kevin...good job!
Earl
BTW:
tomorrows schedule for me..
8 am get up
8:30 pick up 21 yo son
9:00 we arrive at work (Cosmiac..NASA funded) we are both student workers
9:30 me and my crew go to a testing site to range check X8 wing with APM2.5 and 3DR radios and BT
Noon I go to a computer class at UNM
3:00 go back to work for a while
5:30 go to pysc class till 8:00 pm
Whew.....long day tomorrow !
@Kevin
This is Earl...Like to donate $20 also. How to do it ? I have a PayPal account.
Also Bluetooth is the way I like because it's built in to most Android devices.I have been busy at school so I have not done much on testing BT yet. I am a 67yo student at University of New Mexico.
Earl
That might not be a bad idea. Maybe solves the ergonomic and joystick quality problem of this thing. Then I could continue to use my otherwise excellent TF-700.
Still, this GamePad is pretty interesting at that price point. I'm not even sure I'd buy one, but having this system available to people is pretty attractive.
I tried a host cable, which would not 'fit' on this unit but does work on another archos which does have host usb, and none of the specsheets for the gamepad mention usb host.
One word of warning, I just noticed there is no mention of usb host port in the tech specs on this thing. I will try and dig up a cable to check if it does to usb host or not.
Jack, "Wikipad 7" is really great !, no information about price :(
Could this be a potential alternative ? Its costing around 136 to 136US$, with free shipping worldwide, sources are this and this.
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