This tablet is less than $50 from Walmart.
Mach Speed Trio with WiFi 4.3" Touchscreen Tablet PC: Tablets come in
all sizes up to 12 inches.
Technical Specifications on the Touchscreen Mach Speed 4.3" Tablet
With WiFi:
1.2GHz ARM processor 512MB DDR of system memory and 4GB on-board
storage memory 4.3" touchscreen Built-in 802.11b/g/n WiFi
Additional Features on the Mach Speed Android Tablet PC Featuring
Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) Operating System:
Back webcam Mini-USB 2.0 port 4GB on-board storage memory, additional
memory via microSD card slot Built-in rechargeable battery
Software and Applications:
Mach Speed Android Tablet PC Featuring Android 4.0 (Ice Cream
Sandwich) Operating System Media Formats: MP3, WMA, LRC, AVI, JPEG,
GIF, GMP and TXT
What's in the Box:
Mach Speed Android Tablet PC Featuring Android 4.0 (Ice Cream
Sandwich) Operating System, battery, case, stylus and AC adapter
What's a Tablet PC?
Tablet PCs are compact, ultra-portable entertainment devices that let
you read email, surf the Internet, read eBooks, view photos, play
games, listen to music and watch video files. Most tablets are based
on a smaller operating system, which allows you to purchase and
download additional applications from supported stores. Tablet PCs do
not have a CD/DVD drive and will not run Microsoft Windows or its
applications. Tablet PCs function as a secondary device for casual
entertainment purposes, and are not meant to replace a computer. They
are ideal for use around the home and on the go with WiFi or 3-4g
mobile broadband connections (pay as you go, contract may be required
for service).
In theory the ARM BASIC EFI can use this as an EFIS display for all
you engine parameters.
No stand alone LCD for micro EFI computers can come close to this
resolution.
Things they are a changing fast :)
Paul Lamar
Has anyone looked at the Raspberry pi or Beaglebone Black with a high
NIT display on the HDMI port? Seems like perhaps a good EFIS core.
Has SD slot, USB, HDMI, network, uart port, some gpio, etc...
Certainly missing the 4.3" touchscreen at $50.
Dunno what happened here as pi's keep replicating at my home. They
shoulda called it the Tribble device.
-Karl
The cost of the ARM IDE software (Integrated Development
Environment) is $3,300 to $6,600. They must be kidding :)
http://www.newark.com/arm/ds5pe-kd-30000/arm-dev-tool-ds-5-pro-nl-dnld/dp/74T7489?ost=74T7489
http://www.newark.com/arm/ds5pe-kd-30001/arm-dev-tool-ds-5-pro-nl-dnld/dp/74T7490
ARM IDE's are free from Coridium.
http://www.coridiumcorp.com/prod-specs1.htmldium
Paul Lamar
Hi folkz
I was a businesses devloper at a Wankel engineering-facility and be
a pilot of ultralights.
For my gyro-project I will relay on mazda rotary and hook on the
analogue world to my tablet with IOIO. An Arduino shield can also
due the job.
https://www.sparkfun.com/categories
Maybe it will speed up our dreams for an EFIS tablet ;-) My biggest
concerns are the bad looking displays in sunlight or coldness...
kind regards Claude
Sometimes you have to make a shroud or hood.
IMHO BASIC on 32 bit Teensey 3.1 beats Arduino by a factor of two :)
https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/teensy31.html#specs
IMHO C is cryptic nonsense. Computers are smart. They should be able
to understand plain English. BASIC is the closest thing to plain
English in the computer programming world.
As far as I can tell there is no BASIC IDE for Raspberry. There
appears to be some Linux solutions but most of the world users have
Windows unfortunately.
Paul Lamar
Have no interest in an EFIS on a tablet as there are many many
commercially successful solutions that are tested and affordable. No
need to re-reinvent the wheel.
Much interest in simplified EFI and ignition systems that work on
real engines. Current commercial solutions are expensive and
complicated. C. Smith
If you would like to practice while I get the low cost EFI printed
circuit boards made down load the free qb64. I think it runs on
Windows 8. There is no hardware I/O like PWM or A to D in qb64 but
you can practice arrays which are the key to any EFI.
Windows, unlike the old DOS, does not allow hardware I/O.
http://www.qb64.net/
When I get the EFI PC board done you will need a $29+ $9 shipping
Mini MO from this company. It is the brains of the EFI and allows the
EFI to communicate with your PC using a USB cable. There will be a
socket on my EFI PC boards that this plugs into. I have done biz with
this company in the past and they are reliable.
http://www.mikroe.com/mini/stm32-m0/
Once you have that you can download the free BASIC from them that
does do hardware I/O. No need for my PC board yet. You can turn LED's
on and off to simulate injectors and feed low voltages up to 3.3
volts into the A to D and see what affect that has.
A scrap MAF would be fun to play with as you can use a hair dryer to
make it think it is seeing intake air flow. Don't forget to limit
the MAF out put voltage with a divider and 3.3 V zener. The Mini MO
can send the voltage out of the MAF to your computer screen. Good
testing device for MAF's.
You can also build a smart rotary engine compression tester with the
Mini MO. All you need is a $5 pressure sensor from DigiKey or
Mouser.
Testing various other engine sensors (water temp, oil pressure,
manifold pressure, etc., etc., etc..) is a piece of cake. But you
probably have all that stuff already at work.
I should be getting my Mini MO any day now.
Paul Lamar
Look at Tuner Studio for an Android based engine monitoring system. This
system uses a Blue tooth connection between the engine computer and the
Android tablet. Unfortunately this is set up to to use the mega squirt
gear. However the serial port data organization is well documented and
can be adapted to other computers with out to much difficulty. The
product is called
SHADOW DASH MS by Efi Analytics (tuner studio).
I also ran across another program called MSDRIOD. An Android based
program which does the same thing as Shadow Dash MS. Google it to find
the program.
chris smale