[time-nuts] FA2

[Didier Juges]

Raspberry Pi has no display, no keyboard. If you add those, you far exceed
the cost of a 7" tablet and you still have a pile of stuff that barely fits
in a shoe box let alone in a decent looking enclosure and that you would
not want to leave on a table unattended.
A cheap Android tablet is hard to beat if you need a display and keyboard
and having played quite a bit with both, my RPis are still all in the same
box where they came in while a number of Android tablets are used
throughout the house as remote controls for a number of things.
The most recent is a$49 7" Fire tablet to use also as a controller. Nice
piece of hardware for the cost.
Writing Android apps using a tool like B4A is a lot of fun, with a Visual
Studio like environment.

Of course, if you need a lot of discrete IOs, the RPi is very handy.

Didier KO4BB

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019, 12:00 PM shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq931 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 4:00 PM ew via time-nuts <time-nuts at lists.febo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Good Morning DidierThank you for your response. The "ONLY" thing we would
> > like to do is record and display the info coming out of the RS post. To
> day
> > making long term observations ties up a PC or Laptop with fans and a
> > HP53132. Gone for a week the main concern is fan failure. Store the info
> on
> > the Tablet in a SD chip or in it and when ready download through the USB
> > port that we use for importing data to a memory stick for further
> processing
> >
> <snipped for brevity>
>
> Rather than a tablet, might I be so bold as suggesting using a fanless PC,
> such as a RaspberryPi (other small fanless computers are available).
>
> Cheers
>
> Arne
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