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More powerful, but no keyboard and display.
Said the guy or gal typing on a keyboard and reading the response on a display. Solved problem?
This is nice. This is a simple, straightforward design, and a reasonably convenient form factor. Two biggest limitations are RAM and wireless interfaces, or rather lack thereof. This thing has less RAM than my router (admittedly a $70 box), and has neither WiFi nor BT. It does not seem to have many GPIO pins, too. With the amount of RAM installed, it's mostly a handheld terminal, and maybe a handheld console with emu…
> neither WiFi nor BT I understand having WiFi, it'd be great for a small device like this. But why would we need Bluetooth? It only has 32MB of RAM so I doubt you could get any music running on it.
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Would be nice if he broke out the $10k. My guess is mostly the cost of an injection mold for the enclosure.
Mold for the silicon keyboard - the first five keyboards is going to be about $6k. After that, each keyboard is about a dollar a piece. Same with the plastic enclosure.
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I don't think "screw with" means "block" in this case. But there is one moderately famous blog that does block HN: https://www.jwz.org/
yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.
[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
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I was thinking about the fact that 40 years ago there was the Sinclair ZX80, a $100 computer that you could hook to your TV and there's not really a whole lot in that space/price point¹ now other than the hobbyist Raspberry Pi/arduino/other hobbyist machines. I'd have to think that it's possible to make a consumer-grade PC that you hook up to your own monitor for around $100, although I guess the cost of a Windows li…
> Surely someone could build a windows PC (or I guess Linux) that's inside a keyboard enclosure for around $100 that could be commercially successful now. Raspberry Pi actually did that. [0] The RPi 400 is right around that $100 mark, fully assembled, and is basically a keyboard with a bunch of ports for the people who end up with it. [0] https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
> I’m changing the title of this page just to screw with mods on the orange website Loving it! What orange website could they be talking about? I wonder what would be achievable, around the $15 mark WITHOUT needing a minimum order of 1000? (Presuming access to a 3d printer and a reasonably cheap PCB fab company)
What is the recent trend of website users not using the actual names of the websites they use? >the orange site >the bird site Are these pet names? Is this passive aggressive contempt? Or is this an inside joke that I don’t get?
The keyboard becomes very cumbersome.
(source: found out the hard way when brought toys that require two hands or all fingers to play with, in worn-torn countries.)
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yeah I asked jwz how to do that, but I can't figure out a way to make that work with Github pages.
HN helpfully uses the referrer, so you can easily do it with a tiny bit of JS: if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") { // Mess with HN users here... }
if(document.referrer == "https://news.ycombinator.com/") {
window.location = 'https://bbenchoff.github.io/images/Brogrammers.png'
}
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Surely an ESP32 should be able to run Linux. Then you would get Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. After all Linux used to run on 486, BSD ran on 386.
> Surely an ESP32 should be able to run Linux. Then you would get Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. Yes, but it wasn't easy, and only recently achieved. [0][1][2][3] Unfortunately, for both those examples, the WiFi module itself had to be disabled so that Linux had enough memory to function. Though, of course, they should be able to do something like my favourite tiny Linux board, which wired in extra RAM. The 8bit Atmega [4], th…