Tablets hacked ? was debian debootstrap arch etc....
On Tue, 20 May 2014 08:43:27 -0400
"Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:51:11AM +0100, RichardBown wrote:
> > I need to replace the computer upstairs, I'm fed up with the
> > intermittant SATA controller on it, so looking for an ARM machine,
> > maybe a tablet, it need to have two audio inputs as well as o/p and
> > needs to be fast enough to run WSJT, so that can have Deb on it.
> > So maybe a tablet with an audio interface ????
>
> You are not very likely to find tablets with even one audio input and
> certainly not spdif. That's just not the kind of thing tablets are
> used for, and most tablets are NOT running plain linux and are often
> hard to get enough details about to make it happen yourself.
>
> Not sure how much processing power WSJT needs.
>
> There are a number of options out there with iMX6 quad core chips,
> although I am curious what kind of boards we might see soon for the
> DRA7xx that has been getting merged into Linus's git tree lately
> (OMAP57xx I believe will be the actual chip name). The tegra K1
> might also be an interesting and fairly powerful system.
>
> > But for now the pogoplug can stay as is.
> > It really is a pogopig.
>
Hi Len
not sure how much is needed , there is a lot of number crunching
Joe originally wrote it to run on P233, but its progressed since then,
Nothing fancy with graphics just a basic waterfall display, similar to
SDR. its using QT5 now and python.
It emulating a DSP .
I'm aware most tablets dont have audio I/O. but at a push. a usb sound
card could be used, but considering they have a mic and speakers, its
awful tempting to get a low cost one and open it.
I wouldn't be surprised if someone on this list hasn't already done it,
to see whats flashable.
I should thing its it capable of number crunching for HD TV it should
cope with WSJT easily..
So the question now Len , is who will admit to opening up one of the
cheap Chinese tablets and having a good rummage around inside ???
I'll change the subject to indicate this
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Richard Bown
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