Now you can take the display, keyboard and mouse to anywhere the range of the radios allows and work from there. Pack the items at the receiving end into a compact/cheap package and I think you ll have a great product.
Now you can take the display, keyboard and mouse to anywhere the range of the radios allows and work from there. Pack the items at the receiving end into a compact/cheap package and I think you ll have a great product.
You could pretty much do exactly what you describe with a RaspberryPi and some software - instead of two or three dedicated mouse/keyboard/monitor tx/rx pairs, you plug those peripherals into the 'Pi and use WiFi and software. (Note: a RaspberyPi isn't the ideal candidate for this, they made design decisions way back that limit the network throughput, so I don't _think_ you'll get full HD video over the WiFi adaptor because of the way it's sitting on the relatively slow and congested USB bus, but that's not a fundamental flaw in the idea, just an implementation detail the 'Pi designers chose to make back in '12 or '13 that you wouldn't need to follow now...)
For very little more than a Raspberry Pi (plus power supply and USB WiFi adapter), you can get many "mini pc"s now - I've got an Ainol Mini PC which is an entire Windows 8 machine, with WiFi/USB/HDMI/power-supply(including an internal battery good for ~10hours) - and you can get them for around $80US ex China now. I'm not sure how much more "compact/cheap" you're thinking of, but I wonder how big the market of people who would use your hypothetical gadget but only buy one at a pricepoint somewhere under $80 is - when the alternative is a full blown, if somewhat under powered PC.
Damn. Is it really possible that you cannot infer what I meant by the "processor" from the context?
>Linking all those processors together requires - you guessed it, a processor.
Wrong. There is no "linking" required at the device. Each of these can communicate independently..
And the solution involving pi is adds unnecessary overheads and limitation, which will greatly degrade the usability of this device.