Virtual mapping with linux

[moose-en-a-gant]

Kind of a future project when I'm in a better state but

 

I recently (today) attached my VivoTab8 tablet to my HP Presario CQ60 using a coat hanger, foam, hot glue and some rubber bands. It's mounted like a simple pivoting sign, supported at the bottom right and glued at the top. So I can watch a movie while I use my main screen to split screen. I actually have a secondary monitor but I only connect to that when I'm sitting upright eg. at a desk. But when I reach that point where I can't code anymore but still awake, I put on movie after movie till I pass out, in the meantime researching and learning about different subjects. So, this to me is useful thus:

 

I wanted a laptop with four screens... yes, FOUR

 

Imagine your average laptop, it has two halves, you open it and the screen pops up perpendicular to the keyboard.

 

Then, imagine unfolding the first fold to the left, the second fold to the right, then the last fold upwards, now you have a laptop with four screens. I don't know if anyone else has done this, it seems like a fun project to me.

I was talking to quick about building super computers using networking or literally connecting a bunch of smaller computers or even those that you plug into walls. Anyway, I alwasy wanted to muck around with Raspberry Pi's, I recently heard about ODroid which is apparently even better but anyway.

 

Virtual mapping, this may not be the correct term but, what I want to do which ties in with a different project... hold on, there are three things here:

 

1) virtual map the screens and join them together as one

2) virtual map a laptop to a mobile phone on any software using wifi

3) virtual map the individual single board computers to act as one hence "super computer"

I realize that raspberry pi's arent' that powerful, wait... quad-core? What!!!

 

• A 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU
• 1GB RAM

http://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/

 

Anyway, I would use like 3 or more of these, design a special "circuit-*ehem*-bread-board"

 

Ideally I would design a laptop body to be 3D printed that houses the three or more raspberry pis inside

 

A cheaper alternative perhaps fun too and also a nightmare would be to buy crap laptops from craiglist for like $100.00 each and take off their screens, I realize the adapters may pose a problem but again the virtual mapping.

 

Treat the panels like four parts of a square and asign values to them like a grid, the cursor has a "fake" value that is arbitrary, following the fake screens but is displayed on the screen. Anyway, this is probably super hard as I haven't actually delved into it yet but it's one of my projects hehe.

 

Just wanting to see if anyone has any insight on it.

 

I don't know, I'll probably spend some time building custom computers even steam punk ones or like a Pip Boy from Fallout 3.

 

Would be fun, using Lithium Polymer batteries (use them for drones) as a power source, building regulators, custom designs, maybe just gut laptops and clob parts together, I don't know...

 

About #2

I created a phone stand out of a credit card where you place the phone in landscape mode, so your phone sits like that on your desk, kind of neat, there's a tutorial on youtube about it that I made.

 

Anyway, I wanted to be able to take the mouse from my computer and go into the phone with the mouse, the phone comes on from sleep and I can click on stuff with the mouse and also use the keyboard on the computer to type into the phone. I would use internet relaying to trasnfer the commands probably have to deal with API on the phone part but I don't know, I "suggested" it to microsoft but eh... who knows. They don't seem to pay attention to people, I asked Tesla Motors how much they would convert a Lamborghini Aventador to electric but no response, one day when the cost of an Aventador is 10% of my networth, I'll find out myself.

 

Yeap so I ranted... luckily I build websites so I'll write my own tech DIY sort of websites in the future, it's fun to buy domains... <- confession of a shop-a-holic right there haha

[moose-en-a-gant]

What if it was just four tablets connected together physically by hinges but they were all synced to each other when you opened it, you could even only use one of them, but they were wired together to share power equally... hmm drawing time

 

God, should have bougth that drawing tablet, but doesn't work on linux my Vivotab8 is my windows computer hehe it's no Surface Pro 3 but it is still great, I love it, so glad I finally bought a tablet.

 

I'd draw on that but the stylus I ordered (paid $16.00 more dollars for expedited shipping on a $1.99 item) has still not arrived it's been like a week, should be here by tomorrow apparently. 

 

I'd also use the tablet but it is mounted to my laptop screen to the left playing Sherlock Holmes haha

 

So some drawings, using sumo paint, nothing fancy, I like Google SketchUp it's an easy to use 3D modeling, it's not Solidworks by a long shot but it works. Easy to use but again, Linux... no juice to run Wine.

 

Microsoft paint is also a great tool

 

Haven't learned inkscape yet, wasn't pleased from my brief encounter 

 

 

 

eh... nothing like drawing with your hands on clean copy paper... damn lines

 

four asusvivotab 8's what is that, $640.00 for a four screen device, four quad core processors, with 8 GB of RAM... would be interesting.

 

The base tablet would be used as the keyboard, maybe 10" is better, like the size of a normal keyboard.

Edited February 5, 2015 by moose-en-a-gant