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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I just read this post i am a little late to the party but what about PSVita as a ground control station?
I have four tabs; Penta IS701C, Penta IS709C, Pipo S2, ZTE V9C. Andropilot, DroidPlanner, VR Droid RC works fine with first three tabs.
(and by tether I mean using wifi to share my 3g uplink)
Yeah - that 8" note sounds sweet.
@Ravi - no need for gprs (though GPS is a big plus). My tablets are always just wifi, then I tether them to my phone and use my phone's internet connection.
Kevin & All, Just gor my Samsung 8" Note and Andropilot works great on that. It finally have that normal Micro USB port too so no more that big bulky iPhone style connector.
hi kevin, the Asus tablets available in this part of teh world do not have GPRS. i am sure i have to go for asus tablet with GPRS connectivity.
Hi Ravi, I think if you don't want joysticks the best 7" tablet now is still the "Nexus 7"" but there isn't too much difference between the 'top tier' 7" tablets (like the tablet from Asus or Samsung) so any of those three would be fine.
Cheap tablets like the Pipo are super impressive, but if you want something that 'just works' my recommendation would be one of those three. The samsung might be less desirable because they might still use a non standard USB host mode connector.
hi kevin, can u recommend a 7" tablet which i should buy since you have excperimented so much with android tablets. i will be buying a tablet next week for android GCS. i do not want to make mistake.
Thanks for the tip Kevin, sun glare really hurts the Android GCS usefulness.
I think if you don't want joysticks the best 7" tablet now is still the "Nexus 7"" but there isn't too much difference between the 'top tier' 7" tablets (like the tablet from Asus or Samsung) would be fine. In any case, you definitely want to add a screen protector sticker - because that sticker will solve the 'glare' problem from the sun.
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