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Aside from the hacking aspect, why would you build one using RPi and a small screen, when you could use a $50 tablet: http://tinyurl.com/atablets http://tinyurl
by discardorama 13y ago
Aside from the hacking aspect, why would you build one using RPi and a small screen, when you could use a $50 tablet: http://tinyurl.com/atablets http://tinyurl.com/atablets
Even motion detection is possible using the tablet's camera, no?
- edent 13y agoA PIR is a lot more energy efficient than continually doing motion detection. It's also a lot more accurate - it looks at Infrared rather than just movement (which can be caused by a moving curtain or flashing light, say) But, yeah, why learn how to build something when you can just consume...
- discardorama 13y ago> But, yeah, why learn how to build something when you can just consume... Let's not be so condescending. The tablet won't be an out-of-the-box solution; you'll still have to (a) either hack something out on Android, or (b) use a JS+HTML5-based solution. So you are building something, just not in the way the OP did.
- DanBC 13y agoBecause you have a Pi available. Maybe you've moved onto other tiny computers (like Beagle Bone) or you just have one spare.