Recently one of my friends won a permit to raft down the Grand Canyon for 21 days, I’m going along rowing one of the boats.
I want to find a cheap little laptop, that is at least semi waterproof / rugged so I can put Linux on it and get data from some of the sensors im bringing (spectrometer, ph, etc), plus do a little programming in the evenings.
It really doesn’t need to be powerful, i would just bring my MacBook but I don’t want to break something expensive.
Secondary objectives are at least reasonable battery life, but not too much of an issue with the solar and batteries we’re bringing.
If you don’t need anything powerful, consider grabbing an old toughbook or the like. They’re reasonably rugged and are fairly water resistant. They’ve also been around for a while, so you can grab an older used copy pretty cheap. I can’t speak to Linux compatibility, but they are x86 computers at their core.
This would be a good idea— they are pretty cheap def appreciate the ruggedness