I'm still looking for a way to build a cheap navigation unit which
could get "voicemail service" through an ad hoc network as a side
benefit. Some of that functionality you can already find in a number
of smartphones already; defaulting to an Open WiFi AP when it finds
one to save you on your Verizon minutes for instance. So I don't
think this will be all that much of a dev effort. This almost
certainly has to have been done before, but I can't find it on
Shouldabeen or HalfBakery...
I'm pretty sure you can use cell towers for navigation even if you
don't have a service plan because of the requirement placed on
CellCos to offer emergency phone calls. So you should be able to get
AGPS for free, right?
Again, I don't know how much like a phone this thing would look like.
To get all that functionality into a single box, I assume we are
starting with Linux instead of Android...
At 04:14 PM 2/18/2012, Tom Metro wrote:
Stephen Adler wrote:
> Maybe I should first start by building a touch pad PC or an
> equivalent iTouch type hand held system. Maybe a better term is a
> hand held Gnu/Linux PC with at least WiFi capability.
How are things coming along on your DIY tablet?
Looks like a 12-year-old beat you to it:
http://mashable.com/2012/02/17/seventh-grader-windows-tablet/
Seventh-Grader Plans to Build World's Biggest Tablet
James Hardman...thinks tablets are amazing, but the ones currently on
sale simply aren't big enough for him. ... Turning to Kickstarter,
Hardman posted his plan to build a 17-inch Windows tablet, showing it
could be done by creating a crude prototype with an old monitor,
gutted and jury-rigged to run Windows Vista...
-Tom
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