BYOK – Bring Your Own Keyboard
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#2The standalone device's display reminds me of the Apple LCD display for the //c:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc#Portability_enhancem...
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#3Cool idea, you should consider adding a photo of the device on the landing page. It did not make sense until I clicked into the device page (Firefox mobile iOS).
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#4I'm from GenX. I remember these.
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#5I'm from GenX. I remember these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
If you want to relive your glory days someone is making an open source version. https://www.crowdsupply.com/zerowriter/zerowriter-ink
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#6I’ve been considering making something like this since usb host support showed up on the raspberry pico. My dream is something like this with an eInk screen for weeks long battery life n
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#7I'm from GenX. I remember these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
When I started out in the eighties I was maintaining (repairing) these little monsters for a major daily newspaper.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80_Model_100
Those Alphas were the upgrades. Fancy!
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#8I'm from GenX. I remember these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
I've still got one! I can't believe anyone loved them though, they miss key presses if you type too fast.
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#9Glad to see it has a micro SD.
My main gripe with the freewrite (and to a lesser extent, this option) is the whole cloud/app/document management offering. I get that those features are important to several people, but I am happy to pull data from the device on occasion, or to back things up via git myself. Having to lock in to some vendor's cloud thing without any alternative is an instant way to make a device untenable for me personally.
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#10I'm from GenX. I remember these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlphaSmart
I work with a couple people who worked on these, and own one myself!