I've been working on mounting a FitPC on the telescope with the idea that everything is autonomous and then only connect to it over the wireless. I'd setup the telescope using a laptop to start the session, then pack up the laptop and head inside where I would take over using my desktop PC.
But then I thought it would be nice to still have a screen so I could see what the laptop was doing.
iPad!
It had everything going against it. The 2048 x 1536 resolution is higher than the FitPC can handle, the screen needs a lot of power from the 5V line, more than the DisplayPort can handle, and eDP is not quite the same as DP. Then it needed backlight control and after purchasing a few bits that I thought would never work we get the picture below. There's soooooo much more screen realestate than my crappy old laptop!
For $130ish total I now have a 2048x1536 10" screen that weighs next to nothing. Now to figure out how to mount it.
