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CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by SimianLogic2 »

crazygringo wrote: post #47

I love this concept, I just really want one with an e-ink screen instead. I think there's a great niche for "embedded" devices around the home -- weather readout panels, lighting controls, music player, intercom, etc. -- but glowing rectangles mounted to the wall are just too... glowing. E-ink panels is where it's at, and a Raspberry Pi powering it is perfect. Unfortunately, the only real general-purpose e-ink tablet…

Seconded. I looked into this at the start of the Pandemic -- there are a few crap ones on Amazon. I couldn't get them to work with my phone. I'd love to just have a set of web bookmarks and be able to load those or send it a URL from my device or even a page out of Notion.

My main use case: when I'm following a recipe, my devices go to sleep in a minute or two and it's a huge pain in the ass to wake it up and type in passwords while covered in sauce or flour or raw meat or whatever. I've started printing (or writing) recipes on blank paper just so I can move them around the kitchen and not worry about things going to sleep on me.

The press would eat it up with snark (Silicon Valley invents recipe cards. ha ha ha ha ha so clever!), but I don't want a rolodex full of cardboard that I have to stick in a drawer somewhere and sort/manage.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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aboringusername wrote: post #11

Looking at the specs [1], I can't help but feel for $200 getting Wifi 4 (N, from 2008) and BT 4.0 (from 2010) leaves me underwhelmed. Maybe it was a cost decision, maybe licensing? Maybe due to power constraints? But damn, Wifi 4 is just objectively terrible and needs obliterating, it's borderline unusable and leaves me worried about the longevity of using such old standards in 2/3 years time (if that's the expecting…

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Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by profsnuggles »

kvirani wrote: post #68
lnsru wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comparison is wrong. Kindle isn’t being sold with sustainable profit. A hardware company couldn’t operate with that margin. Plus Kindle has a huge volume. Not really comparable with an e-ink tablet what makes latter even more expensive. You can get for that money 7,5” e-paper hat for Raspberry Pi. It goes for 71,99€ on German Amazon.

They aren't saying that it needs to be $80. Just not 10x that price.

Well a kindle is actually $110 when it's not ad supported and boox is selling a comparable device for $185. So very similarly priced.

I would suspect the boox actually has more capable hardware because it needs to run android 10. I don't care enough to check though.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by prox »

StevePerkins wrote: post #39

Two-hundred bucks is basically "impulse purchase" territory, but I'm nevertheless struggling to see the use case here. If you're into maker projects with Raspberry Pis, then I'm not sure what this does for you. It's a Pi already built into a consumer device. Not seemingly a platform for new maker projects. If you want a tablet with a Linux kernel buried in there somewhere, then there's probably a thousand Android opt…

One of the first things I bought for my Pi was a battery HAT and with VNC on, I use my iPad as its screen, and a BT keyboard from an old Mac. It’s the best of both worlds. I can take the Pi anywhere and work on some Python projects. I went out in nature and it is quite cool to have your tools of the trade with you. Perhaps this fits in that kind of -maybe niche- use case.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by alisonkisk »

hanniabu wrote: post #88
StevePerkins wrote: post #39

Two-hundred bucks is basically "impulse purchase" territory, but I'm nevertheless struggling to see the use case here. If you're into maker projects with Raspberry Pis, then I'm not sure what this does for you. It's a Pi already built into a consumer device. Not seemingly a platform for new maker projects. If you want a tablet with a Linux kernel buried in there somewhere, then there's probably a thousand Android opt…

I was really hoping this would be a "bring your own pi" solution rather than a build in one. If it were BYOP then it'd be great for portable devices like field readings (hydroponic nutrient readings around the greenhouse, wilderness env readings, etc) or taking retropi gaming on the go. I feel like having it built in dampens that portability aspect, especially since RPIs are often reused for various projects.

There are exist laptop shells for your pi

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by alisonkisk »

globular-toast wrote: post #37

So no GPIO access or anything? If someone told me they were working on a "Raspberry Pi Project" I would have assumed it would be something taking advantage of that hardware. Do they really only mean they are programming something on Linux?

It has gpio.

Re: CutiePi – A Raspberry Pi 4 tablet

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Post by terramex »

alisonkisk wrote: post #97
globular-toast wrote: post #37

So no GPIO access or anything? If someone told me they were working on a "Raspberry Pi Project" I would have assumed it would be something taking advantage of that hardware. Do they really only mean they are programming something on Linux?

It has gpio.

Does it?

Board photo from their GitHub shows version 2.0 with GPIO pins [1], but it looks like updated version 2.1 [2] ditched GPIO and put microphone in its place.

[1] https://camo.githubusercontent.com/1e615d82470b7e1dccbd18583...

[2] https://cutiepi.io/assets/pictures/board-detail.png

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