One thing I would like is a small portable hdmi display to use with my headless servers when they fail to boot. Even better would show screen over network.
I recommended https://www.aurga.com last time this came up.
$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
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Remember when the future was each AA battery having its own thumb destroying built-in tester? Imagine AA batteries with little LCD screens.
Technology Connections did a video about those very batteries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsA3X40nz9w
It's interesting that he speaks of them as something very old, but such batteries were still widely available in Europe not too long ago. I have a pack of Duracell PowerCheck AAA batteries made in Belgium and labeled good until 03/2029, which suggests a manufacturing date of 2019.
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Keylogging? Just how do you think it can read any keystrokes? As for inserting keystrokes, that will be obvious if it enumerates as a keyboard. You should turn down your paranoia a little more.
I think the paranoia stems from the HID inserting winflag+r, powershell curl https... which installs keylogging software. It can do that after a 10 minute or so countdown timer so it might not seem immediately obvious, or might seem like part of a auto-update with powershell postinstall.
The paranoia stems from this being a suspiciously cheap device that is meant to be ordered in bulk from China.
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#154I recently researched USB connected information displays but I am interested in e-Ink. I want - USB power + data - Open interface so I can drive it from my own software on the host (but not like a traditional monitor, I imagine more uploading pre-rendered bitmaps) - Image retention when powered off - High resolution paper like appearance - Between A5 and A4 in size - At least black, red and yellow as colors - Buttons…
This is the one you want https://www.seeedstudio.com/reTerminal-E1002-p-6533.html?srs...
Spectra color so high res and beautiful with built in esp32.
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Takes me back. https://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-maximus/#51... Think this was $1200. Honestly don’t think I would spend any extra money on dynamic keys- I never look at my keyboard.
The Elgato Stream Decks, although not keyboards proper, come very close
Funny you mention that. There's a lineage from one to the other: https://www.theverge.com/c/features/24191410/elgato-stream-d...
Makes sense that they moved from individual screens to one big one under a bunch of transparent keys.
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#156Re: $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
#157This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
“The project” - your creative drive to “do a project with this device” is completely fulfilled by purchasing. It’s a strange thing but there’s a direct line from creative desire to buying then not doing. This is why I have so much electronics junk it’s all projects that I “completed” when I hit the buy button on Aliexpress.
I'm trying to channel my tinkering drive into software projects. Somehow these usually to get at least to the "hello world" level. Also, when left unfinished, they don't occupy the precious 3D space around me.
Also I need to sell an oscilloscope and a bench power supply :)
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#158This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
My Raspberry Pis have also gathered quite a lot of dust during the years but they're pretty nice to have around. I needed to start hosting a web service and instead of buying a VPS to run it on, I just dusted off the old Raspberry Pi 2 and set up my service there.
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#159This kind of "tinkering stuff" makes me want to buy it just because. Of course, once I have it, it will end up inside the drawer collecting dust along with my RPi, ESP32, etc...
“The project” - your creative drive to “do a project with this device” is completely fulfilled by purchasing. It’s a strange thing but there’s a direct line from creative desire to buying then not doing. This is why I have so much electronics junk it’s all projects that I “completed” when I hit the buy button on Aliexpress.
Well, if you don't buy it, then you won't build anything for sure. If you have a drawer full of little components, the time may come to actually use it.
Re: $2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
“The project” - your creative drive to “do a project with this device” is completely fulfilled by purchasing. It’s a strange thing but there’s a direct line from creative desire to buying then not doing. This is why I have so much electronics junk it’s all projects that I “completed” when I hit the buy button on Aliexpress.
Well, if you don't buy it, then you won't build anything for sure. If you have a drawer full of little components, the time may come to actually use it.
Yep it starts being really fun when you can go directly from an idea to making it, because you already have the components on hand from previous projects/hoarding.