It’s interesting to see how tablets have risen so fast in appeal in just a few months, months in which Apple has sold over two million iPads. This is why it’s not a miracle that some hardware manufacturers have started offering open source kits for DIY (Do It Yourself) touch tablets. One of them is produced by Liquidware, who call themselves Open Source Electronics guys. The kit is calle Beagle Embedded Starter Kit and costs around 400$, offering all you need to set up your own tablet in a few minutes.

    Beagle Embedded Starter Kit is meant as a kit to test your software for tablets or build your own OS based on many of the Linux distributions out there. That doesn’t mean you can’t use it out of the box, but it won’t look nice, not at all, but what did you expect from a test platform like the Beagle.

    Now lets see what the kit’s components are:

    • BeagleBoard Rev C4 produced by Texas Instruments, and features a 1 GHz CPU
    • BeagleTouch touchscreen display module with a smallish 4.3 inches in diagonal
    • BeagleJuice battery module that lasts three to six hours (that’s a big margin if you ask me)
    • 4 GB pre-formatted Angstrom Linux boot SD card. The SD card can be swapped for a bigger one, and you’re not limited to the Angstrom OS

    The whole kit weights only 8 ounces and offers even an USB port where you can attach an external hard drive or flash disk. If we raised your interest you can get the Beagle Embedded Starter Kit from here.

    Beagle Embedded Starter Kit

    Beagle Embedded Starter Kit

    Source: Gizmodo