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Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by akavel »

erikb wrote: post #23

I think the key point to efficient mobile linuxing is neither the hardware nor the basic software but the language input. I feel touchpads and mobile keyboards are both not handy to communicate with bash/vim in the subway. We need a better mobile keyboard for that. Does anybody know who's working on something in that direction?

There's e.g. the Chordite project (a chording keyboard), with plans and software available for DIYers. It's been out there for many years already, but as "wearable computing" didn't catch up yet, it didn't either. See:

http://chordite.com/teensypictures.htm

http://chordite.com

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by gcb0 »

krenoten wrote: post #33
gcb0 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

true. that's why the way to go with portable is to put a beagle bone or a Chinese arm soc in a mechanical keyboard. add some small screen (though you will always use the bb video out or a makeshift gglass) and you got yourself a cyber punk deck, minus the neural interface :-(

You can also make your own EEG and train a classifier of your choice (heavily biasing the "do nothing" command) with sklearn or something. I've used off the shelf EEG's (emotiv epoc with the emokit library, there may be better options) to bind thought actions to moving a mouse, clicking, opening a web browser, but it was a bit noisy. I had to bind the act of clicking to the thought of a flavor, because it turned out…

but input is handled beautifully with the mechanical keyboard already. the neural interface was for output.

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by deaconblues »

agumonkey wrote: post #73
deaconblues wrote: post #15

This is truly one of the coolest things I've seen in a while. I can't help but think of the little Atari Portfolio John Connor has in Terminator 2.

I finally understand that funny feeling every time I carry a computer in my backpack. That exact scene. Thanks a lot.

That scene had a pretty big impact on me as a kid. Here was a movie with time traveling assassin robots, but that scene always seemed totally believable and possible. I think about it a lot, for whatever reason.

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by gcb0 »

zokier wrote: post #30
mkesper wrote: post #13

Powering this with something slightly more powerful than a Raspberry and it should completely be usable. http://socialcompare.com/fr/comparison/low-cost-arm-boards (from 2013, does anyone have an up to date comparison list?)

http://linuxgizmos.com/ringing-in-2015-with-40-linux-friendl... is one list, but frankly there are ridiculous number of these boards/modules available.

and the guy from novena laptop just posted recently that in china, you can get much more models with much more interesting hardware.

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by marssaxman »

erikb wrote: post #57
freehunter wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was trying to find a small Blackberry-like keyboard for a side project I was working on about a year ago. Doesn't exist, at least not in a form-factor that is easy to integrate (USB, Bluetooth, etc). The best I could find is a USB wireless keyboard that they sell on Adafruit that really, really, really sucked and was still way too big.

It's not about size, but about the idea behind it. The basic keyboard is designed for people sitting in front of a desk and using both hands. Making it smaller is just not enough. In the subway I have one finger, my thumb. I want an input device designed with that in mind. E.g. the iPod sliding wheel was exactly a result of designing an input device for a single finger. We need more like that and less blackberry keyb…

Weren't the blackberry keyboards also designed for use with thumbs? That's how I always typed with mine.

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by npsimons »

john61 wrote: post #71
npsimons wrote: post #68

Step 1: Get an N900 Joking aside, this is really cool, and I'm glad there are still people out there who recognize the value (and want it this badly) of a handheld Linux terminal. Meanwhile, the batteries on my N900 keep getting shorter and shorter charge cycles . . .

the battery is cheap to replace. I stay with my N900. I did not see anything better.

It's getting harder and harder to find actual BL-5Js, not just cheap knockoffs that won't hold a charge. I've been through at least three already, still have about 4 left. But I'm with you on the "nothing better" front. The org-mode app on Android is a joke compared to having an actual full-blown emacs with org-mode on N900, not to mention how straightforward the FS layout is and the fact that git works nicely.

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by dvhh »

npsimons wrote: post #68

Step 1: Get an N900 Joking aside, this is really cool, and I'm glad there are still people out there who recognize the value (and want it this badly) of a handheld Linux terminal. Meanwhile, the batteries on my N900 keep getting shorter and shorter charge cycles . . .

I would really liked to get an N950, too bad these are such rarity

Re: How to create a handheld Linux terminal

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Post by tacoman »

walterbell wrote: post #67
mdm_ wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this app: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/38050888/?la... allows you to do just that.

This looks excellent, thanks much for the pointer.

Yup, it is. I use this to control my HTPC. It works very well.
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