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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 dmayle »

Tepix wrote: post #20

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…

"If your badge has been hit by ransomware, see how to enter Safe mode."

What a world we live in...

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

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Post by CoastalCoder »

theamk wrote: post #17

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…

I've never done a project using a board like this, so out of ignorance:

Does LTS support usually matter, if you're using the device for a stand-alone application such as a lighting controller or front-door camera?

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

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Post by tmaly »

BeefySwain wrote: post #8
Hextinium wrote: post #4

Link to the pin out of the bottom connector: https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/board-overview Looks like a neat board, I could see making expansion modules that plug into the bottom and running like a IR blaster or other stuff off the SPI/UART bus.

> The UNIHIKER's pins are compatible with micro:bit They really bury the lede here, awesome that there is already an ecosystem that exists for the edge connector.

Aside from pins, does this mean you can program with this MakeCode ?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

anonzzzies wrote: post #26
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)

It’s pretty good depending on what you are doing. With Python and JS/TS, the last checkpoint for training datasets really matters. These api’s for no reason at all to me, rot incredibly fast, so the code it generates was valid in September 2020, but now it is almost completely incompatible. I was raised with (80s/90s); never break the public api unless you have to and make a migration path if you do; now it is ‘let’s…

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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 snarfy »

theamk wrote: post #17

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…

Why does it need continuous, perpetual support? Most devices like this get built, software installed, and never updated again. When is the last time you updated the ECU software in your car? I built a small arcade cabinet using an old raspberry pi 2b. Once I built it I've never needed to upgrade anything on it. It works fine and plays all the old games. I have backups of the SD card in case anything craps out.

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

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Post by idiotsecant »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #33
theamk wrote: post #17

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…

I've never done a project using a board like this, so out of ignorance: Does LTS support usually matter, if you're using the device for a stand-alone application such as a lighting controller or front-door camera?

depends on whether you care about vulnerabilities or not, I suppose. Presumably that lighting controller talks to something. If it talks to a local network only and it's impossible for external traffic to reach it, maybe not such a big deal. If that's not true it might be significant. That's also true of all IoT junk anyhow, it's all running some linux variant under the hood and security / updating is rarely a major concern.

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

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Post by asimovfan »

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)

You can ask ChatGPT to explain pieces of code.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

CoastalCoder wrote: post #33
theamk wrote: post #17

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…

I've never done a project using a board like this, so out of ignorance: Does LTS support usually matter, if you're using the device for a stand-alone application such as a lighting controller or front-door camera?

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