Open source tablet computer

I'm an experienced software engineer in the telecomm industry, lately I've been interested in working on a hardware p开发者_开发问答roject.

One of the ideas that floated around in my head is the concept of an open source tablet computer. I'm inspired by the success that the Arduino has made, and it is my personal belief that if this device was open source it could be a great platform for inspiring new projects, and become a cheap device for schools!

Can any of you give me suggestions where an idea like this has been tried before, what went right, and what went wrong?

Well I agree with Casio (this is probably not the place to ask such a question: not sure what is, though), but a significant effort with something similar was made as a part of the OLPC project: it is as open as you could hope, low cost...I would say that is as good a starting point as any: replace the screen with a touch screen and hack away!

On the other hand, there's a company selling kits for basically exactly what you described. Let us know if you go anywhere with this...I'd like to know. :)

Check out the Open Compute Project which started back in 2011 building vanity free open source hardware (servers) for data centres.

If you want to campion an idea for open source hardware then get involved in the global community www.opencompute.org

https://youtu.be/-uJ9n1HEBBY