The "Mac Air" is a laptop. properly known as a MacBook Air. It's the 'netbook' variant of the laptops.
As Far as I know, there is no way to use the internal display of a MacBook to display anything other than the OS or an application. That applies to anything with a display in it that Apple makes. 73, Joshua Gould K8WXA EM89pn On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Fred Jensen <k6...@foothill.net> wrote: > I don't know what a MacAir is, I've pretty much managed to avoid the > iWorld. I can tell you about the Raspberry Pi [and others] however. > > Raspberry Pi [and Beagle Bone, and several others] are tiny little > processor boards with weird names that run some flavor of LINUX, and thus > will run LINUX-based applications, a great number of which speak > Internet/Web. You can do a great deal with them because of that. > > I built a 40-station irrigation controller for my wife using the Hamstack > components [hamstack.com] based on a Microchip PIC. Aside from using > their and Microchip C libraries, I had to write all the functional code in > the PIC myself. > > The Hamstack guys [who I know quite well] have now added Beagle Bone and > maybe Raspberry Pi to their line, which allows you to capitalize on already > created applications and modules. > > Hope this helps. I wouldn't be holding my breath for royalties, however. > :-)) > > 73, > > Fred K6DGW > - Northern California Contest Club > - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014 > - www.cqp.org > > > On 7/10/2014 1:15 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote: > > Right. For an EE or computer expert, maybe; but not for a Liberal Arts >> sort of guy. Even my Internet research about "Raspberry Pi" was >> entertaining but incomprehensible. But that aside, does anyone know of a >> way to feed the P3 output into a server sort of thing and have it come out >> as something that will fool the MacAir into thinking it's a web site, >> hence toggleable vis-a-vis the resident logging program? >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to jg.k8...@gmail.com > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
