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Our (Pi compatible) HyperPixel Round is just shy of 3” if you count the thick, black border around the edges. Actual screen is 2.1” but diameter is 71.8mm.
Ok wait, so when it says 2.1" that doesn't include the bezel? So the problem all along has been me reading it wrong? Thank you!
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Period.
Street Cred: I have common sense.
There is only one outcome: Defense spending, Military Death.
You flash the OS (okay, admittedly, debian which is nice) onto it from windows with some lugubrious .exe https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/burner No linux/macos tool available. No thanks.
Who even develops Windows-exclusive apps these days, anyway? Even the average user these days seems to find it simply abhorrent.
It's so simple to create cross-platform applications these days, there's literally no excuse.
I can't imagine the thought process that went behind this beyond greed and profit, a little mind-numbing.
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Excuse my ignorance, but what sort of applications benefit from hardware acceleration on limited SoC resources?
Inferencing neural networks is a big one. It's hard to get near real-time performance without it. Depending on the use case of course.
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> 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.
It's the same connector as on the BBC Micro:bit, right?
Edge Connectors Pin numbers are compatible with micro:bit, 19 independent I/O (Support 1 ×I2C, 1×UART, 2×SPI, 6×12-bit ADC, 5×10-bit PWM)
https://www.unihiker.com/wiki/specification
Note: The edge connector on the back has no electrical connection.
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...
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I purchased a few ARM boards in the past and won't do it again. All became e-waste. Rockchip notably, great hardware on paper. Try developing something that needs hardware acceleration and it's a paper weight. It's a common cycle of broken promises to provide drivers by manufactures, rinse and repeat. The exception being raspberry pi or expressif. Depending on the application.
I've had the same experience with non Raspberry Pi boards. They've become useless thanks to endlessly broken software and zero support. My rpi's have been useful for years and are still getting regular updates. I think I too was drawn in by the performance claims made by those other manufacturers. I realized though that raspberry pi are very powerful computers. We just take the scale of modern computing for granted a…
I was thinking how I constantly find myself using GPT and Bard to prettify source code. Surely, not the most efficient use of compute.
Like some crude Parkinson's Law joke on more proficient algorithms.
I wish the RAM could be a bit more, at least 1G or 2G, so I can have a database on there without having to ship my data to the cloud. Then the system can really run isolated as much as possible, for security and privacy.
It has 16GB of flash. Can't you put your database there?
Of course, applications would respond shit slow this way, but in the case of a DB it'd be more than fine, no?
It seems like the smaller it is, the crazier people get.