08-25-2021, 10:01 AM
The primary peripheral I want is me. And something that stretches time and gives me the spare time to develop for it.
For me, wifi / bluetooth is plenty. With a suitable external application, I "could" use the pinetab to guide a presentation rather than using a glowy tablet. Yeah, color, but if it's *my* presentation then I already know what's going on.
And an e-ink tablet would just be cooler.
I can't think of many hardware peripherals I want. epaper ain't fast, and I don't want one for playing videos, etc. I can see a LTE/GSM modem being useful for people way off-grid (through hikers, etc.) who need to keep in touch every once in a while. But the power drain kills the epaper advantage unless it's ultra-low duty cycle. Plain LTE's session handshakes are too long and eat too much power. Honestly the M and NB1 variants are lower but still painful. Those protocols appear the only commercial options in the US. We have practically no LoRaWAN or Sigfox (?) build-out.
For me, wifi / bluetooth is plenty. With a suitable external application, I "could" use the pinetab to guide a presentation rather than using a glowy tablet. Yeah, color, but if it's *my* presentation then I already know what's going on.
And an e-ink tablet would just be cooler.
I can't think of many hardware peripherals I want. epaper ain't fast, and I don't want one for playing videos, etc. I can see a LTE/GSM modem being useful for people way off-grid (through hikers, etc.) who need to keep in touch every once in a while. But the power drain kills the epaper advantage unless it's ultra-low duty cycle. Plain LTE's session handshakes are too long and eat too much power. Honestly the M and NB1 variants are lower but still painful. Those protocols appear the only commercial options in the US. We have practically no LoRaWAN or Sigfox (?) build-out.
