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I am interested in seeing your frankentop, have you written it up in a blog post, or submitted to hackaday etc?. Personally, the Surface or tablet form-factor

I am interested in seeing your frankentop, have you written it up in a blog post, or submitted to hackaday etc?. Personally, the Surface or tablet form-factor seems like the future to me, bring your own keyboard.

atdrummond 5y ago
Not yet - I'd like to put together a proper case for all the components first. In the process of designing the required parts and 3D printing them.
- jacknews 5y ago
  Look forward to it.
- jacquesm 5y ago
  Cool project, would love to see what you cook up.
tluyben2 5y ago
Maybe a surface 10inch with rlcd or eInk would work well indeed. I do need some type of attachable keyboard though that is also the screen protector. It is fairly annoying as some tablets have to bring all kinds of crap with you to make prop it up and set up a ble keyboard. It is possible but not very nice as daily driver.
- jacknews 5y ago
  I think a clever design of screen cover could fold back to act as a stand, or also lock in place like an open laptop, but without a keyboard - for when you actually use it on your lap rather than a table. You rest your own keyboard on the open cover.
jitl 5y ago
I owned a Surface Pro. Surface form factor is not fun. It’s impossible to pop it open quickly to write down a thought or squeeze in work in a moving vehicle without some body contortions. It’s ironically less portable for hacking than a laptop because you need more stable surface area to actually use the keyboard and display at the same time! It’s a perilous balancing act to use it on an economy tray table - and forget using it on a bumpy bus without a table. I would only recommend if you will spend >70% of your time using the computer as a touchscreen tablet, or it’s otherwise critical for your use case.
- jacknews 5y ago
  As above, I think a screen cover with hinges, so it can lock open like a laptop, and perhaps magnets or velcro to stop your keyboard sliding around on the 'cover' part, would solve all of this. For quick todos or notes, the on-screen keyboard.

atdrummond 5y ago

Not yet - I'd like to put together a proper case for all the components first. In the process of designing the required parts and 3D printing them.

jacknews 5y ago
Look forward to it.
jacquesm 5y ago
Cool project, would love to see what you cook up.

tluyben2 5y ago

Maybe a surface 10inch with rlcd or eInk would work well indeed. I do need some type of attachable keyboard though that is also the screen protector. It is fairly annoying as some tablets have to bring all kinds of crap with you to make prop it up and set up a ble keyboard. It is possible but not very nice as daily driver.

jacknews 5y ago
I think a clever design of screen cover could fold back to act as a stand, or also lock in place like an open laptop, but without a keyboard - for when you actually use it on your lap rather than a table. You rest your own keyboard on the open cover.

jitl 5y ago

I owned a Surface Pro. Surface form factor is not fun. It’s impossible to pop it open quickly to write down a thought or squeeze in work in a moving vehicle without some body contortions. It’s ironically less portable for hacking than a laptop because you need more stable surface area to actually use the keyboard and display at the same time! It’s a perilous balancing act to use it on an economy tray table - and forget using it on a bumpy bus without a table. I would only recommend if you will spend >70% of your time using the computer as a touchscreen tablet, or it’s otherwise critical for your use case.

jacknews 5y ago
As above, I think a screen cover with hinges, so it can lock open like a laptop, and perhaps magnets or velcro to stop your keyboard sliding around on the 'cover' part, would solve all of this. For quick todos or notes, the on-screen keyboard.