Cool concept. But no way am I plugging that into my computer without creating a sandboxed environment with no network access.
A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
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Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#12This was a novel idea once. But nowadays I would stay away from plugging in a usb device of someone I just met.
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#13Author here! Trivia: I really, really wanted it to run Doom, so that I could have a section titled "But Does It Run Doom?". This is challenging with no screen; SDL has an experimental ASCII backend where in theory you could draw terminal graphics over SSH. But it refused to cross compile despite repeated efforts. So, sadly it does not in fact run Doom.
In other words, it doesn't run Doom yet. Great project, and excellent execution!
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#14Really cool, but I can't help thinking: All that effort, and you're email address have a "5" in it....
Heh. I am George Hilliard V (that is, my dad is IV and my son is VI). So it makes a certain amount of sense!
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#15Author here! Trivia: I really, really wanted it to run Doom, so that I could have a section titled "But Does It Run Doom?". This is challenging with no screen; SDL has an experimental ASCII backend where in theory you could draw terminal graphics over SSH. But it refused to cross compile despite repeated efforts. So, sadly it does not in fact run Doom.
What if you make a USB network device gadget and serve a mjpeg video stream to it that's the framebuffer/screen output? Web browsers or VLC on the host can show the video, and if you can get ffmpeg compiled and running on the device I think it has a fbdev input that can capture the framebuffer directly and likely convert it to a mjpeg stream (even acting as a http or rtmp, etc. server).
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#16This was a novel idea once. But nowadays I would stay away from plugging in a usb device of someone I just met.
exactly. I was going to say the same thing, then I realised I'm in hacker-news and then afraid of getting down-voted.
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
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#18Really cool, but I can't help thinking: All that effort, and you're email address have a "5" in it....
Heh. I am George Hilliard V (that is, my dad is IV and my son is VI). So it makes a certain amount of sense!
Wow you have a son and are able to do these things? That’s impressive. I can barely do work and family already. Well done
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#19Author here! Trivia: I really, really wanted it to run Doom, so that I could have a section titled "But Does It Run Doom?". This is challenging with no screen; SDL has an experimental ASCII backend where in theory you could draw terminal graphics over SSH. But it refused to cross compile despite repeated efforts. So, sadly it does not in fact run Doom.
This is such a cool project but you also did fantastic documentation which was certainly quite a bit of work too so thank you!