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pythoneye2 2019-03-13 05:26
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maemish (Post 1555155)
I measured the intel stick and it would sit nicely under the N900s opened screen. I have about the same sized powerbank. To make them sit side by side in a case with a microusb on it into witch to just slid the N900, that was the scenario. Not to have wires and stuff going from pocket to pocket. Don't make me to prove I'm wrong. I think I will wait for maemo leste to see is N900 enough as is for me or not. But the idea and the vision of running with N900 a proper compact computer don't seem to leave my mind too easily. Have got emotionally so attached to that little creature. Now writing this with N810 which gives some ease for the will of learning to use something new. Didin't expect this to be this good device.
If you dont care for camera, the upper keys, and it still fits in your pockets, that might work. I still like to hear an experience about such nice modular design. Post pictures of the beast, if you do this.
But watch out for battery consumption and heat of the module and tighten the n900 usb port.

Maemish 2019-03-13 06:17
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Checked the prices. 20000mAh powerbank 20eur, male microusb / female usb cable 5eur, china copy of intel stick 100eur. The proper stick is pricy. Not sure if I should just by the older stick with ubuntu 14 on it but it has only 1,4 ghz processor and 1Gb ram. But would get with 50 eur and cause this is just an experiment would really want to get everything under 100eur. Also there's a big difference with the weight of the powerbanks. N900 150g and lightest capasity powerbanks at least 250g, normal weight about 400g which is too much.

biketool 2019-03-13 11:19
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
I wish I had some Pi-zeroWs, big community and it can run Ubuntu Mate. Get a PCB hub solder down the USB devices you need like KB, mouse, touchscreen and use the HDMI for display.
Probably about 10euro for the board, a good MicroSD card will cost more than the system board and it fits your design spec, 3D print a box/N900 mount for it, again VNC and SSH to connect wired or wireless.
There is an option to hard wire the N900 via internal USB pads too, this is not a bad use of a N900 with a non-functional USB port or failed GSM module.

Maemish 2019-03-13 11:36
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Thanks but not entering the Pi world. Or maybe I'll check. The board is just a bit bulky and needs space for the casing. It sure would give more free space to choose the operation system.

endsormeans 2019-03-13 11:38
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Pi-zeroW is the tiniest thing there is.
and cheap.
but don't expect to be running heavy stuff...It can't quite take that.

biketool 2019-03-13 13:12
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by endsormeans (Post 1555189)
(snip)don't expect to be running heavy stuff...It can't quite take that.
It is not much better than an overclocked N900 and has only 256mb more, but most or all of the drivers are FOSS so the chosen OS can follow regular updates including kernel, AKA why it is so much work or impossible to upgrade the N900 or whatever your favorite mobile gadget is.
My frequent 'web2.0 ruined the WWW' applies here too, offload to a server you own what you cant do with mobile hardware or learn to get by without.

endsormeans 2019-03-13 14:10
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Hahaha...
comparable to an overclocked n900 is exactly right .
Still...
You know kids these days...
Unless it is an icosahedracore...
With liquid nitrogen cooling ...
To handle the important things in life...
Like ..facebook...instagram...or snapchat..
And render in 17 Dimensions ...
Then ... speed comparable to a overclocked n900 may seem insufficient ..

For many (especially those who have gotten spoiled on gigs of ram over the last few years) it would be "learning to do with less"...

Maemish 2019-03-13 16:16
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Just found a post where one guy had tested to run compute stick with 20000mAh powerbank. Run it 10 hours, doing 8 hours windows updates and same time watching youtube with cpu 100. Now I'm glad cause 9000mAh powerbank is then enough or even less so not to need to be too big and heavy. One information step closer of possibly going for it.

Maemish 2019-03-16 23:54
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Does it matter is the host computer that would use N900 screen and keyboard 32bt or 64bt? Almost ordered the compute stick but now just need to check. I thought of buying a 32 but 64 would be better I thing.

There are powerbanks with two cabels for charging so one could power the compute stick and the other N900 if using Y-cable.

juiceme 2019-03-17 17:48
Re: N900 as an external monitor and keyboard?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Maemish (Post 1555294)
Does it matter is the host computer that would use N900 screen and keyboard 32bt or 64bt?
I don't see why it would matter? It's 2 separate systems connected to each other via USB bus, just like any 2 computers connected via any network protocol. The role of the network stack is to hide the computer architecture.


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