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Nice. I've been using a Ben Nanonote ( ) for the past few years. It's a nice open hacking platform, not very powerful but very open and tweakable. ( ) http://en.qi-hardware.com/wiki/Ben_NanoNote
Very cool and inspiring. I'm doing something similar [1] by replacing the guts of a Toshiba Libretto 50C (a tiny laptop from 1996) with a Raspberry Pi and upgrading its screen to a 7" widescreen. It's slightly larger than your terminal, but in my opinion, will be much more usable as a PC with the larger keyboard. But, to each his own :) What kind of battery life do you get with your machine? [1]: http://restoringmyli…
Very cool! Also I love the design of your blog
There are a lot of inspiring projects over the web, but very often they require tools that aren't available to everybody or they're not cheap for one-off projects (laser cutter, 3D printers, etc).
I think this is pretty neat, and I would have loved this 10 years ago. I now already have a handheld Linux terminal, it's called an Android smartphone.
Wintel is making a push, with extra cheap quad-core Atoms and Windows 8. I wonder if this might be easier to get full linux on?
BTW: The big problem with proper linux distributions on ARM/Atom is not not getting them to run, but power management.
Very cool and inspiring. I'm doing something similar [1] by replacing the guts of a Toshiba Libretto 50C (a tiny laptop from 1996) with a Raspberry Pi and upgrading its screen to a 7" widescreen. It's slightly larger than your terminal, but in my opinion, will be much more usable as a PC with the larger keyboard. But, to each his own :) What kind of battery life do you get with your machine? [1]: http://restoringmyli…
The Libretto runs linux, or at least used to. I have a libretto 30 on a shelf somewhere :)
It actually used to be moderately popular back before smartphones became ubiquitous. It's just amazing what you can build nowadays on a shoe-string budget with off-the-shelf parts...
Not as much power as an RPi though.