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Am I right in assuming it's fairly straightforward swap hardware wise? Do you have any measurements of the difference in battery drain between the two? Is it a fairly recent kernel? With that Sharp memory LCD and proper suspend that's potentially a gamechanger for the beepy. Any direction you can point me in appreciated.
Ditto. I’ve wanted to get a Beepy for a while, and I have a Radxa Zero already.
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Anyone know if steam deck can act as a USB OTG keyboard? I remember this being a cool feature of those GPD Pocket computers. It would be cool to hook something up to the USB and send keystrokes from the steam deck (not necessarily from the touchscreen keyboard, but by scripts).
you have to enable USB Dual-Role Device in the BIOS settings for it to act as a device, but yes.
This is cool https://github.com/Frederic98/GadgetDeck
My pet peeve with RasPi for these types of handheld projects is that they don't support suspend, and don't have a true poweroff state. Even in poweroff, they sit there consuming a bunch of current. Beepy is a similar project that uses a RasPi Zero, and their approach is to cut power to the RasPi entirely with a management MCU. On my Beepy, I switched to a Radxa Zero instead and ported over any relevant kernel modules…
Am I right in assuming it's fairly straightforward swap hardware wise? Do you have any measurements of the difference in battery drain between the two? Is it a fairly recent kernel? With that Sharp memory LCD and proper suspend that's potentially a gamechanger for the beepy. Any direction you can point me in appreciated.
Feel free to ask in the Discord if you have any questions.
I'd love one of these! I just built a portable enclosure with a charge controller, USB hub, ethernet and four 18650 batteries. While The Hackberry Pi Zero would've been a lot easier (assuming I'd've just bought one instead of making it myself), the only downside is the battery life. My application is for having a server that travels with me and is on 100% of the time, sometimes running on battery for hours at a time.…
> My application is for having a server that travels with me You probably have your reasons but I wonder why anyone would need that
I want a portable server because I want my data to be in my physical possession. Also, I enjoy telling people I'm already doing the thing that they're telling me can't be done.
I'll write it up some time. Perhaps you'll see it here on ycombinator.
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> My application is for having a server that travels with me You probably have your reasons but I wonder why anyone would need that
I have one, and it’s very, very useful: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/10/07/1830
My current portable uses a Raspberry Pi Zero (not Zero 2). Lower overall power is much more important than performance, and for my use, 700 MHz single core and 512 megs of memory is more than I need. It has been a good project to learn about power controllers.
Back in the day, the Nokia N770/N810/N900 line fit the bill for this perfectly. Its form factor was perfect for the "Linux terminal in your pocket" use case. Might be something to look into for design inspiration.
I miss them so much. Even the N9, which lacked a physical keyboard, was so nice. A planned N9 variant with a sliding keyboard was never released once the series was discontinued. It was so refreshing to have a mobile that acted as a regular Linux machine. You could copy files from your other computers normally just using scp. Or tweak the GSM radio, as you would do with any other device, just using ifconfig.
It was truly a great experience being able to use your standard Linux tools as first-class citizens on your mobile devices.
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See I do have a use for this kind of thing, but not exactly. I have a few desktop towers and Raspberry Pi devices that sometimes due to upgrades or random acts of Zeus absolutely fail to boot up. I want some ability to connect a keyboard and a screen to these so I can see the actual boot screen. Normally for me this involves lugging the device to my office and connecting it to my office monitor and keyboard which is…
I too have this use case troubleshooting headless computers around the house. I saw an ad for https://www.aurga.com and bought one for $84. It connects to an app on my Android phone as display, keyboard, and mouse. Minor discussion 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38609526 Long ago I bought a mini keyboard + mouse combo for input; the custom wireless USB dongle edition I have (strongly preferred ove…
1) Get a Bluetooth adapter.
2) One of those cheap Chinese keyboard/mouse combinations like the one you linked (the are many more).
3) Get a cheap Chinese portable monitor with HDMI/USB-C.
4) Optionally, a powerbank for the monitor. Or get one with a battery.
You'll be done with a similar price as this 'Aurga'. Back in the Nokia days, you could use Nokia Linux device as a remote keyboard/monitor/mouse, too. So e.g. Nokia N800/Nokia N810 a better cyberdeck than a Sharp Zaurus.
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> My application is for having a server that travels with me You probably have your reasons but I wonder why anyone would need that
Does anyone really NEED anything? That'd be a tangent. I want a portable server because I want my data to be in my physical possession. Also, I enjoy telling people I'm already doing the thing that they're telling me can't be done. I'll write it up some time. Perhaps you'll see it here on ycombinator.
Oh great! Another awesome looking cyberdeck that I want to own and will find absolutely no practical use for. I've added myself to the waitlist already.
See I do have a use for this kind of thing, but not exactly. I have a few desktop towers and Raspberry Pi devices that sometimes due to upgrades or random acts of Zeus absolutely fail to boot up. I want some ability to connect a keyboard and a screen to these so I can see the actual boot screen. Normally for me this involves lugging the device to my office and connecting it to my office monitor and keyboard which is…