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> I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)
I picked one up a few months ago and I like it.
It looks similar to this project: https://github.com/ZitaoTech/HackberryPiCM5 I picked one up a few months ago and I like it.
The Hackberry looks awesome. I was going to build/buy one, but I wanted a slightly bigger screen and keyboard, and I also wanted to save some money by using an old 3b+ I had laying around. And I wanted to be able to build it quickly from off-the-shelf Amazon components. So all-in I think I spent ~$70 on this one, whereas the hackberry pi would have cost about double that, and then I would have had to buy the CM5 module.
Curious to hear of your experience with the hackberry - I still might consider getting one of those myself.
> I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)
> I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)
IDK about pants pockets, but blazer- and sport-coat-wearing needs to make a comeback. Those hip pockets that can comfortably hold all the old pulp "pocket size" paperbacks from back in the day are so damn nice. Great for enormous modern smartphones, too.
is Raspberry Pi OS entirely usable without a trackpad/mouse or does this need an external one to be connected?
However, I mostly use this unit in terminal, which means I boot to terminal and only occasionally start up the GUI with startx when I need it.
I use terminal because: I'm trying to brush up on my terminal skills and most of my use-cases are covered in terminal with applications. Some of my favorite terminal applications are:
tmux - for managing multiple terminal windows nano - for writing code (occasionally I use vim) tty-clock - nice clock screen saver lynx - text based web browser. works surprisingly well on some sites like wikipedia epy - ebook reader - great for reading classic free ebooks from Project Gutenberg doom - because doom cmatrix - matrix-style screensaver - looks really cool
My main use case is for learning new code languages - it's nice to have a handheld device on me to practice writing code when I have a few minutes on me but don't have a laptop
i'd like to try making this but i don't have a 3d printer nor know someone who does. i have a feeling that if i find a service that does it, that it would cost as much for the 3d printing as for the raspberry pi itself
> I wanted something small enough to fit into a pants pocket I always wanted to know what kind of pants people wear who say that to this device size (see also Nintendo DS & co)