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Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #2

This definitely puts the STM32F429 Discovery board to shame with its now inflated $80 price tag.

The STM32F4 is a Cortex-M4 microcontroller. You have direct access to optimally do whatever you want with the CubeIDE and GCC libraries.

This is a platform, if the things you want to do are possible with the entire stack of Debian, the pre-existing touchscreen menus, the PinPong Python libraries, etc. then sure, use this...but that's a lot of wasted efficiency and a very large dependency.

The STM32F4, for example, can be configured to enter deep sleep and run for a long time on a battery. This likely cannot.

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by Retr0id »

joshuakogut wrote: post #10
Retr0id wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm incredibly curious what the experience of trying to write code with ChatGPT is like, if you have no prior knowledge. Obviously, it's impossible for me (and most others reading this) to un-know everything and approach it with fresh eyes. Are there any good real-time videos of non-programmers using ChatGPT to write code? (seems like the best way to understand what it's like)

Well, it is helpful for learning new frameworks and stuff when you already have a grasp of general programming.

Right, but what's it like if you know nothing about programming?

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by darkwater »

Unrelated but trying the HN wisdom here: any suggestion for a cheap touchscreen with a CPU attached and a battery that can be used as a control panel for Home Assistant? Yeah, probably some Android tablet but something that actually works well for this job and costs as less as possible? I cannot power it properly where I want to put it so it needs battery and then I can charge it as needed. Suggestions?

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by NhanH »

Retr0id wrote: post #9
markstos wrote: post #3

The video says "No coding skills? No worries. Just write your code with ChatGPT."

I'm incredibly curious what the experience of trying to write code with ChatGPT is like, if you have no prior knowledge. Obviously, it's impossible for me (and most others reading this) to un-know everything and approach it with fresh eyes. Are there any good real-time videos of non-programmers using ChatGPT to write code? (seems like the best way to understand what it's like)

Hard to image OpenAI not at least trying that out, so if we haven't heard any thing from them, it's safe to say it doesn't work.

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by willcipriano »

Retr0id wrote: post #13
joshuakogut wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it is helpful for learning new frameworks and stuff when you already have a grasp of general programming.

Right, but what's it like if you know nothing about programming?

Sort of like using Google translate for a language you don't speak a word of I'd imagine. "I just said what the computer said to say and now the computer/waiter is mad at me"

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by theamk »

My usual question for small cheap boards is: what will happen to OS support in 3 years? Is it using regular distro or is this a custom fork which will likely be never updated? The website says:

> The UNIHIKER comes with a Linux operating system based on Debian and various built-in features, which will be upgraded from time to time.

... don't expect OS upgrades here. If you want to play with it for a while then put it away forever, go ahead and do it; but if you want to build something long-term, better find a different board.

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by lbotos »

darkwater wrote: post #14

Unrelated but trying the HN wisdom here: any suggestion for a cheap touchscreen with a CPU attached and a battery that can be used as a control panel for Home Assistant? Yeah, probably some Android tablet but something that actually works well for this job and costs as less as possible? I cannot power it properly where I want to put it so it needs battery and then I can charge it as needed. Suggestions?

I mean, You are spot on -- A cheap android tablet sounds like the fastest/best/most aesthetically pleasing option. Otherwise Waveshare screen + some PI board is the "easy hacker-aesthetic way"

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

Retr0id wrote: post #9
markstos wrote: post #3

The video says "No coding skills? No worries. Just write your code with ChatGPT."

I'm incredibly curious what the experience of trying to write code with ChatGPT is like, if you have no prior knowledge. Obviously, it's impossible for me (and most others reading this) to un-know everything and approach it with fresh eyes. Are there any good real-time videos of non-programmers using ChatGPT to write code? (seems like the best way to understand what it's like)

I suspect that people would fail at the first hurdle and not even be able to run the code.

I also wonder if they'd even know what to ask.

Re: Unihiker, an $80 single-board PC with 2.8“ touchscreen, quad-core ARM Cortex-A35

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Post by Tepix »

This device is similar to many hacker festival badges from the recent years. Just a bit more expensive.

For example:

- the Camp 2023 flow3r badge https://events.ccc.de/2023/06/05/camp23-the-flow3r-badge/

- the MCH2022 badge https://wiki.mch2022.org/Badge

- the SHA2017 badge with E-Ink https://wiki.sha2017.org/w/Projects:Badge

- the Camp 2011 badge R0ket https://events.ccc.de/camp/2011/wiki/R0ket

The first three have ESP32 CPUs, not sure how it compares to the ARM Cortex-A35

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