For interest, here are some of the uses that I saw for these ATOM based tablets....
1. Running configuration software for my various thermal imaging cores via the integrated RS232 and USB ports
2. Running image analysis software to view and analyse images captured on a thermal camera via USB link or UB type card reader
3. Remote control thermal cameras using their control software via the USB, RS232 or Ethernet port
4. Stream or video capture thermal camera images via the USB port for a larger, or remote display on the Tablet.
5. Time lapse thermal image capture via USB port.
6. Thermal Motion detection and image capture via the USB port
7. Driving Seek Thermal and FLIR dongle cameras using Windows or Linux software via the External or internal USB ports
8. Test PC on the repair workbench to drive cameras via RS232, USB2 or Ethernet.
9. Logic Analyzer on the test bench driving one of the many USB based Logic Analyzers.
10. Portable test bench using one of the USB driven “all in one” oscilloscope, function generator and Logic analyzer units.
11. Adding A FireWire card to the internal MiniPCIe port to drive Industrial FireWire thermal cameras. (I bought such a MiniPCIe FireWire card on eBay a while ago)
12. Test bench tablet for schematics, documents or record keeping. Far more robust than a standard tablet and able to run Windows or Linux, as preferred.
13.Temperature logging of a thermal camera Blackbody source or the inside of a cameras casing using a simple USB based digital thermometer.
14. Controlling a Thermal camera Blackbody test source PID via its RS232/RS485 data link
15. Tablet based thermal camera borescope using a Lepton core .... a future project of mine
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So as you can see, I had good reason to buy one of these rugged tablets
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Fraser