Bug #10720
openCHIRP app for Chromebooks
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Description
A majority of American school districts have only Chromebooks for student use. As a chemistry, physics, and physical science teacher, I would like to be able to train students to use radios more effectively. Last year, for example, I trained five physics students to become Ham Technicians. They were unable to program any radios, however, because we didn't have access to Windows or Apple computers. Is there any way for you to develop an app for Google Chromebooks so they could run CHIRP through the app? This would reach a much wider audience and that audience would be much younger than the traditional CHIRP audience.
I plan on incorporating much more radio stuff in my classes this fall and would really like to be able to show the students how to program their radios effectively.
Updated by David Boucha 10 months ago
John Deming wrote:
A majority of American school districts have only Chromebooks for student use. As a chemistry, physics, and physical science teacher, I would like to be able to train students to use radios more effectively. Last year, for example, I trained five physics students to become Ham Technicians. They were unable to program any radios, however, because we didn't have access to Windows or Apple computers. Is there any way for you to develop an app for Google Chromebooks so they could run CHIRP through the app? This would reach a much wider audience and that audience would be much younger than the traditional CHIRP audience.
I plan on incorporating much more radio stuff in my classes this fall and would really like to be able to show the students how to program their radios effectively.
Do your students have permission to run Linux on their Chromebooks? If so, you could likely install the latest chirp-next on Linux on your chromebook.
I'm not an official developer on this project, but having a basic understanding of how Chirp works you'd most likely have to be running Linux on your Chromebook to get Chirp working.