The race for convergence is not over, at least for Canonical, which continues to evolve its systems and this time receives a proposal to further boost its project. It is a dock station that a user has designed and proposed as a project through the well-known platform of through crowdfunding Kickstarter. If this project is successful, it is expected that the operating system Ubuntu can reach even more people.
With the name of Station Dock, its creator Marius Gripsgård has set the Amount of this project at $ 200.000, a figure that becomes somewhat ambitious if you intend to achieve it before February 2017. Time will tell if it is successful or not.
The development plans of this However, go beyond a single model that will present two other designs, one slim and one for laptops. Although at the moment there is no initial prototype, a presentation of the model was made at UbuCon where the design was shown in 3D images. You can take a look at it from minute 50 where it specifically talks about However,.
In terms of the capabilities it will offer, it is a small unit with the capacity for 2 USB ports and an HDMI video connector. Inside it will run a minimum version of Linux that allows executing USB OTG and decompress the images efficiently from the mobile that, through Miracast, are transmitted to the HDMI port. In this way a Slimport and MHL port is missing for those mobiles with Aethercast support.
The designer has already advised that in case of using Wi-Fi as a communications support, a certain delay will be introduced in the casting of the images, but that will not be influential for the proper use of the system. The user will be able to interact without problem on the desktop, view images and videos and all with performance as expected.
The good news is that this device It will also be compatible with mobile phones equipped with Android system. It is hoped that your community, much larger than any other, will facilitate the mass production of this project. Therefore, there will not be a problem at the software level to be able to use it with other environments.
Source: Ubuntu Fun.