These past three months have been insightful. My dream project has been on the forefront of my mind for 4 years now. While waiting for Google to do something it has given me a 3 month reprieve of not even looking at this. I have had time to pick up an internship, and now I am working to get a new job at a data management group. I have put more time into my studies without distraction. And, I have cleared all my thoughts on the matter. I haven't been able to fully make a working color model for the 3D printer so my attention is back to here.

When I was last doing this three issues had me terrified: design of the logic system, the creation of the computing card that controlled the system, and feasibility of the build with so many esoteric connections and design philosophies. Now, I am back with a solution and a goal that I will not let budge one millimeter. In the logic system I was terrified about who had control of the logic over the USB and video. I now know I will be pushing almost all control logic down USB since its standard has now expanded to a 10Gb/s standard with a glimmer of 20Gb/s out there. Which means I can push all video data down the USB line without denying most other things on the bus. Even 4k won't go too far beyond 6Gb/s since it's bound by SATA III under most circumstances, and I don't have any expectations that this is the immediate use. Another huge thought on the matter is that it leave a possibility of multiple host computing devices on the same tablet working in tandem as master and slave.

As for designing a computer card for the tablet... I'm not even going to think about it. That's because it takes a team of people to make a proper board, and it's design won't make or break this project.

I can have a board that can without making the Motherboard for the mobile system, but I can't have the modular tablet without the power system and logic. So, that's off my dinner plate, and instead I should be focusing on drivers for *nix like and maybe NT to drive the entire board and establish the controls.

And with almost exclusively using USB 3.1/C for my logic interface, I can make the production for anyone who wants to build this feasible. I can take all proprietary connections and reduce them to a type C connection and maybe headers for SPI/I2C for some rudimentary things to maintain control. IF done right though, there should be an internal host that hands Bus control over to the proper device without the need for SPI/I2C. This would eliminate all but one connection type, and that type would just be USB.

Since I made those "simple" things out, I can make goals that will be done this year:

• Power supply that can meet at least USB 2.0 standards & some caveat situations to work with USB 3.1... it's a tablet... don't expect too much.
• A control system that can be plugged into *nix computers for complete and tandem control computer control. (mind bottling hard part)
• A commandment sheet to make full design philosophy for the modern mobile device. In short being mobile will no longer mean we can't have the expandability we've used in PC's for decades. No compromise between Portability, Expandability, and Power.