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Re: Lisp Badge LE

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i love the full keyboard- any time someone says they wouldn't benefit from learning vi bindings because they 'spend more time thinking than typing' i hand them one of these

Vi bindings come surprisingly in handy while typing in the terminal on my smartphone even.

Yeah, surprised me as well when I was trying different ways of editing text and sometimes code via touch keyboard, vim bindings was the easiest way by far.

Re: Lisp Badge LE

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Blackberry-compatible motherboard with appropriate keys and nothing more may be done relatively easy, but where to get drivers for the display and the sensor joystick?

Display and joystick goes on the PCB anyway. Just use what works. Bigger problem is BlackBerry, or anyone to be in their position, won't like that being done at scale.

Display and multitouch definitely has to be reused, it is almost retina on later models.

Re: Lisp Badge LE

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I'd love to buy this for my 8 year old - this week I taught her how to check her homework on elisp. The idea is to familiarize her with lisp syntax a bit to prime her for programing in the future.

I was between calc (RPN) or lisp (elisp) for their simple syntax. The way I see it LISP's REPL loop is simple enough to teach a kid. And I may be right: after teaching her to verify a two argument operation she got a three argument question. She did:

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I'd love to buy this for my 8 year old - this week I taught her how to check her homework on elisp. The idea is to familiarize her with lisp syntax a bit to prime her for programing in the future. I was between calc (RPN) or lisp (elisp) for their simple syntax. The way I see it LISP's REPL loop is simple enough to teach a kid. And I may be right: after teaching her to verify a two argument operation she got a three…

You can order one through a link on that site, can it be only $23? That's what pcbway.com says. I need a more turnkey approach, someone tell me what to do to get a working board I can just plug in an use. If you ask for "assembly" then it was adding almost $100.

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I'd love to buy this for my 8 year old - this week I taught her how to check her homework on elisp. The idea is to familiarize her with lisp syntax a bit to prime her for programing in the future. I was between calc (RPN) or lisp (elisp) for their simple syntax. The way I see it LISP's REPL loop is simple enough to teach a kid. And I may be right: after teaching her to verify a two argument operation she got a three…

You can order one through a link on that site, can it be only $23? That's what pcbway.com says. I need a more turnkey approach, someone tell me what to do to get a working board I can just plug in an use. If you ask for "assembly" then it was adding almost $100.

Thats just the board, I think

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You can order one through a link on that site, can it be only $23? That's what pcbway.com says. I need a more turnkey approach, someone tell me what to do to get a working board I can just plug in an use. If you ask for "assembly" then it was adding almost $100.

Thats just the board, I think

because of the display and low power use, I'd pay somewhere between 75 and $100 for one of them in a plastic case with some easy power supply/connection like maybe a usb plug-in port?

It's such a cool display and keyboard. Another cool thing (that I'd pay for!) is to attach that to a rasberry pi.

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