hey guys,

my mates school stopped using chalkboards so all they have now are those whiteboards and beamers.

he wants a tablet he can hook up to the hdmi and a pencil that can write on the tablet so the tablet transforms it into text of arial or times or whatever.

what would he need there? is a tablet enough or a touch laptop? i have absolutely no idea about that stuff!

I'm old and have no idea what whitebopards and beamers are, but.... https://www.wacom.com/en-us

wow very interesting site. thanks! gonna check their stuff out. seems to be just what he needs.

I think the beamer is just a projector. The setup is called a smartboard, essentially a touch canvas where the picture is displayed via ceiling mounted projector and connected to a desktop host. In other words, it's a giant touch screen monitor.

He should be able to change the input from the host pc to his tablet on the projector.

yeah pretty much this just that the school didnt buy and desktop host and asks the teacher to bring wahtever notebook/tablet he has.

Found another company called: XP - PEN.
Gotta love Amazon's "Sponsored products related to this item" links.

As long as his tablet has some sort of A/V output, it should be able to plug in and just use the board as a monitor. Not sure about software compatibility to use the touch feature backwards tho (touching canvas and having it work on tablet).