I have recently heard that I have ADHD and since then I have been thinking about a small computer which would work well for people like me who have a problem with organisation, and need a some help to keep all their important information together.

I was browsing the internet for how I could build a cheap tablet PC which I would have everything I need when I came across this. This is almost exactly what I have in mind. A small tablet with full touchscreen to browse the internet and save my administration on.

I have all the technical specs ready, but am just looking for the best way to build it and how to get the needed hardware.

I also have some ideas on how to keep the tablet fast even with mulitiple updates, and have all the data automatically updated.

The best part is that while talking to freinds and family about this they said that the operation of the tablet sounds so easy that even the computer illiterate and elderly should be able to use it with a minimum of training.

There are already a lot of people who have offered to help, but if you still need any please mail me.

Good luck anyways.

Can you shoot me an email? I’m looking for a designer for something similar to this, and came across your post.

Thanks,

Nick

support@alstonimages.com

I can work with java, c, c++, and can try to learn other programing languages.

I guess you haven’t read the rest of this stuff.

See: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/30/crunchpad-end/

Its really too bad, because there are a LOT of people out there that would love to contribute… likely there are enough skills that with a little backing for production, we could build it ourselves as long as we had a good coordinator.

Smart phones and pda are too small and you cna’t plug a usb full sized keyboard to type on occassionally.

My idea was an A5 sized ipod nano hardisk based device, essentially an ipod nano with a b/g/n wirelles chip abd a bluetooth module in there as well. The screen eould be touch senstive with hands and a stylus.

Stumbling on your innovation blog makes me think we should join forces. I’m completeing a computer Science and have done some application coding and could help on the computer engineering side as well as testing.

As for OS a modified tablet pc version of Linux Ubuntu would work well since installation is only 4- 8GB space. So for a compact solid-state hardrive with a capacity about 60- 120GB or so that works nicely.

Not sure if its been mentioned, but would it include the ability to play media streaming from a NAS or another computer…? UPnP/ DLNA device…

I know i’m kinda late to the discussion, but I would love to help out in any way I can. I am studing engineering currently although I would love to beta test this and maybe invest as well.

keep me posted.

Also, looking at many of the lighter linux distro’s like TinyMe will give you a good list of tiny programs to use, like Abiword instead of OpenOffice’s Writer. It uses less resources, and is more than featured enough for the uses it’ll be put to.

SDHC compatibilit is a must. I’d love to be able to have to slots like the Pandora does. If this tablet has usb ports, please position them in a way so that we can make modificatications to it, like internalizing some usb devices. AT&T sells a wonderful set of 3G usb devices that are supported by the linux kernel if I do remember it correctly. If so, I would definitely buy one for this tableet, internalize it myself and have internet access everywhere. It would cost me $10 more than my current prepaid phone plan with Metro, but it would allow for so much more functionality. Since you’re adding Skype we’d have a cheap cell phone with this combination of the tablet and the usb device. It would be completely boss and everything else on the market.

Imagine making a voice call with this device while quickly scribbling notes or surfing the web in a wifiless area. I was planning to buy a Pandora, but if you guys make this tablet please let me know, I’ll be a day one buyer. Just let me know in advance so I can budget for it accordingly, I still have bills to pay!

Is there some type of mailing list that interested parties can be added to? I’d like to be kept up to date on a project as ambitious and magnificent as this one.

I’d also like to volunteer as tester, f I don’t get one of these for free I’ll pay to do so. I’ll definitely internalize the AT&T device after extensive testing of in the usb port. I’ll even try to internalize a usb hub and post a howto on how to do so if I succeed. I’ll also mess around with installing Fedora on the device if it’s possible to do so via usb to give people a how to on messing with the OS and how to use that os. Fedora is also lightweight and very efficient. You do need to use Autoten to update the codecs, but after that it’s brilliant. I’m no linux master, but I can a least get it to automatically load a browser to configure it with lightweight programs that would be good to use on the tablet. It’d be easier if I have the source for the on-screen keyboard you’ll be developing, if not I’ll just have to use the useability keyboard.

Fedora 10 on a pc with 1 Ghz Pentium III and 512 MB of ram runs firefox and open Office smoothely at a 1360×768 resolution, so on this tablet it should be just as brilliant if not moreso since the resolution is lower. Please allow for installing other os’s and programs.

Just copy and pasted this from the other page. If the project is still running I’d love to become a part of it. This has become my dream device, I want it so badly. If $200 is a goal that has become too difficult to obtain, then try for 300. More costlier and less must buy right away, but that can be offset by adding more things to the tablet like its’ own pen and a bit more memory so that it could have a 3rd major option, drawing. Drawing at a high enough res to make people turn heads and run for this.