SmartTab: A Design & Implementation of Tablet for Learning Purposes based on PyQT framework

Handheld devices and smartphone at present are being used as a high potential learning devices and due to which the enhancement of academic curriculum based on smart devices have major impact on quality education. The increased popularity of tablets made its usage in education field also. This paper focuses on the design and development of a SmartTab, which is a prototype of a Smart Tablet having characteristics of both a tablet and a laptop. It is one of the tablet working with a desktop OS (Raspbian), which makes it different from other tablets that are designed with mobile OS. It is designed with some different aspects such as providing ports for input/output, connections for any display device such as LCD, etc. Thus it is different from traditional tablets, but includes features of them as well along with some new features. Traditional tablets mainly serves as an entertainment medium, while SmartTab can be useful for both entertainment as well as learning purposes. This paper presents PyQT framework as an effective tool which provides the cross-platform design & development of Smart Learning System.