Chromebook 13 (Acer) to run OpenSCAD?
I know it may not be appropriate to ask this question here. I am supporting
a charity organisation which will run a summer camp for the underprivileged
free of charge. I intend to bring a few printers into the camp and one of
the things I want to show them is OpenSCAD. However, the organisation has
quite a number of Acer Chromebook 13's (sponsorship or donation, I don't
know) and I wonder how I can run OpenSCAD on them.
I check that some of the chromebook models may be converted to Windows but
it seems that this one is not listed. Perhaps the article was written
before this model was put on the market.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/comments/3gtjfe/windows_10_fully_supported_on_acer_c720c720p/
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/comments/3gtjfe/windows_10_fully_supported_on_acer_c720c720p/
Any suggestions?
Thx.
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cb13 is not x86 based so it would be hard to do Windows.
It is a SoC, which usually supports only OpenGL ES, but according to
wikipedia "Nvidia’s Tegra K1 (codenamed "Logan") features ARM Cortex-A15
cores in a 4+1 configuration similar to Tegra 4, or Nvidia's 64-bit Project
Denver dual-core processor as well as a Kepler graphics processing unit with
support for Direct3D 12, OpenGL ES 3.1, CUDA 6.5, OpenGL 4.4/OpenGL 4.5, and
Vulkan", seems it supports full OpenGL, you may be able to get a non
android linux running...
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I suggest BlocksCAD, since it should run in a browser on a ChromeBook with
no difficulty, and presents an OpenSCAD like programming model with a more
kid friendly interface.
https://blockscad.einsteinsworkshop.com/
On 14 June 2016 at 13:29, william whareg12@yahoo.com wrote:
I know it may not be appropriate to ask this question here. I am
supporting
a charity organisation which will run a summer camp for the underprivileged
free of charge. I intend to bring a few printers into the camp and one of
the things I want to show them is OpenSCAD. However, the organisation has
quite a number of Acer Chromebook 13's (sponsorship or donation, I don't
know) and I wonder how I can run OpenSCAD on them.
I check that some of the chromebook models may be converted to Windows but
it seems that this one is not listed. Perhaps the article was written
before this model was put on the market.
https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/comments/3gtjfe/windows_10_fully_supported_on_acer_c720c720p/
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https://www.reddit.com/r/chrultrabook/comments/3gtjfe/windows_10_fully_supported_on_acer_c720c720p/
Any suggestions?
Thx.
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For just showing how OpenSCAD works, the RollApp version might
be an option too:
https://www.rollapp.com/launch/openscad
ciao,
Torsten.
Thanks all for the suggestions. They are all good. I never know there are
such options.
However, I need to run a proprietary software for the printers as well (it's
Robox). I will try out the Linux option as the printer software can run on
it.
Thanks once again.
William
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I just found out that the RollApps may implement custom applications. I am
asking to see if they can shelf the printer software in their cloud. If
they can do it (with a charge), it will solve all the problems!!
Great suggestions guys!!
William
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My friend did a little research for me. Seems that while it is possible to
install Linux on the Acer Chromebook 13
(https://www.reddit.com/r/chrubuntu/comments/2hhb31/), the openscad build
for this ARM/Linux may have problems and can be quite buggy
(https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton/issues/2401).
And rollApp just told me the following:
it would not be possible to provide low-level access to a USB device
connected to a Chromebook for application running in the cloud on rollApp.
Applications running in the browser are very limited in the ways they can
interface with the devices and our platform does not support general purpose
USB virtualization yet.
But they said we might still port this up on rollApp and used by
participants to create/prepare the models on Chromebooks and then send /
transfer them to computers physically attached to 3D printers.
(Any chrome app functions like remote desktop / VNC? I wonder.)
Just to provide some information on the above leads. Please feel free to
comment further or suggest other ideas.
Rgds William
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