Raspberry Pi Touchscreen Tablet (Pi-Pad)

Abstract

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized single-board computer developed in UK by Raspberry Pi foundation with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in school. Now a days none of the tablets that are available in the market are of Linux OS. In this paper we showcase our attempt at building a low cost stand-alone device called Pi-pad which is very much helpful for educational purpose using the Raspberry Pi as its brain with Bluetooth for connecting peripherals and communicating with local devices like Wi-Fi, keyboard and mouse. It has a touch screen display providing a user interface. The Raspberry Pi Tablet is controlled by a modified version of Debain Linux called Raspbian Wheezy OS optimized for the ARM architecture. The display contains a graphical interface which provides various fields for data entry via onscreen keyboard. Also, in this paper we use Linux commands and python programming for operating and interfacing the hardware.
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150237