No iPad? Just Make Your Own!

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By Matt Richardson
Posted 2011/07/17 @ 6:00 am
Category Electronics

Admittedly, this isn’t the most practical solution for getting your hands on a tablet computer, but it’s impressive to watch this timelapse video wherein Liu Xinying builds his own iPad clone from computer parts. Here’s part 2, where he shows the finished build. It appears as though the tablet is running Windows XP, skinned to look like Mac OS X. Liu demos the tablet with web browsing, Google Earth, and a iBooks-like application. It’s a slick build, but I think I have a lot to learn before I could possibly attempt an endeavor like this. [via Dale]

In the Maker Shed

7 Responses to No iPad? Just Make Your Own!

Ronnie Hinton on July 17th, 2011 at 3:06 pm said:

Bit points for style and execution. Minus points for the sound track. It would be cool to know what sort of netbook he started from or if it was just a jumble of scavenged parts. That’s a lot of effort to put in to the build when you could just put the decals on one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0VHSCrxT2Y and call it a day. Still pretty dang cool. Reminds me of some of Ben Heckerdorn’s builds.

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Ronnie Hinton on July 17th, 2011 at 3:06 pm said:

Bit points for style and execution. Minus points for the sound track. It would be cool to know what sort of netbook he started from or if it was just a jumble of scavenged parts. That’s a lot of effort to put in to the build when you could just put the decals on one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0VHSCrxT2Y and call it a day. Still pretty dang cool. Reminds me of some of Ben Heckerdorn’s builds.

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- 影月 on July 17th, 2011 at 3:11 pm said:
  
  From the size I’d guess he started with normal notebook parts. He could have slimmed it down with netbook parts or with some all-in-one board but I have a feeling he used a full notebook intentionally – perhaps for hardware specs or perhaps just because he had one lying around. The biggest technical hurdle of the build looks to be the touch screen, but it may be one of those touch screens that just adapts to internal USB so I’m not really sure. All in all a gorgeous build, you have to admit.
  
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  Ronnie Hinton on July 18th, 2011 at 11:53 am said:
  
  It definitely looks very nice in the end. I wish he’d shown the source for his case or how he made the general of it shell more.
  
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  Ronnie Hinton on July 18th, 2011 at 11:53 am said:
  
  It definitely looks very nice in the end. I wish he’d shown the source for his case or how he made the general of it shell more.
  
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Ronnie Hinton on July 17th, 2011 at 3:06 pm said:

Bit points for style and execution. Minus points for the sound track. It would be cool to know what sort of netbook he started from or if it was just a jumble of scavenged parts. That’s a lot of effort to put in to the build when you could just put the decals on one of these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0VHSCrxT2Y and call it a day. Still pretty dang cool. Reminds me of some of Ben Heckerdorn’s builds.

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Regina on April 28th, 2012 at 7:32 pm said:

Can you tell me please step by tep how to do it????
Thankyou

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