Holiday Propelloring
g3cwi
Posts: 262
Hi all
I'm off to Singapore for the summer and want to do some more Prop experiments during my down time while there. What would you recomend for this? I see that cheap tablets have USB ports as do netbooks of course. Looking for a low-end solution. Ideas.
Regards
Richard
I'm off to Singapore for the summer and want to do some more Prop experiments during my down time while there. What would you recomend for this? I see that cheap tablets have USB ports as do netbooks of course. Looking for a low-end solution. Ideas.
Regards
Richard
Comments
you might have a look at this:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?132692-Netbook-for-hosting-prop-development
I don't know how low you want to go but I just bought an Acer laptop for $400 from Walmart and it works great.
Also this:
http://forums.parallax.com/showthread.php?112224-Will-a-Netbook-work-with-a-Propeller
Try Sim Lim Square (http://www.simlimsquare.com.sg/). Its a 6-level building pack with shops selling computers & accessories etc, something like Fry's. But if you want more Radio Shack-type, try Sim Lim Tower. It is about 500m away from Sim Lim Square. Have fun bargaining!
For those of us more opportunity-challenged, I would echo ElectricAye's advice. After mucking around with cheaper solutions that inevitably left much to be desired, I had to admit that a cheap Acer laptop, either new or 'refurbished', was far more satisfying and far less frustrating. Some are quite thin and light.
I'd like to know if anyone has ever taken a stand-alone Sphinx system on holiday, and was happy with it.
I use a quickstart and a OLPC-XO (300Mhz) and it works just fine. The The only time I need a more powerful machine is the rare occasion when I have to run the proptool to reload a spin for the kernel. But this is only needed when the kernel is updated.
All I'd have to do after that is connect the terminal to a Prop board running Propforth, like Prof_B mentioned. Perhaps there would be room for the Propforth Prop in the same keyboard case... Perhaps I could even steal 5V from the monitor's internals...
Many monitors have a USB hub inside for your convenience. I believe you should be able to pick up 5v here without having to get inside the monitor