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I bought the Bluetooth keyboard from this maker, ZitaoTech. The fit and finish was excellent. Highly recommended.
So it's a recently made clone of the keyboard, rather than an original one? The readme is unclear on this subject, they advertise "original keyboard".
It’s an original new old stock BlackBerry keyboard, packaged in a good 3d printed case with Bluetooth, USB and battery charger.
If that thing had VGA-in on top of the keyboard and mouse out via USB, it would be a great tool to carry in a data center when you have to physically interact with a machine.
[The most useful networking tool I own - AliExpress "CCTV Tester" that does a lot more than test CCTV] Cameron Gray https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZQSkFl4yIM
Might be something to look into for design inspiration.
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Stock ETA is 1 or 2 weeks, depending on model.
Yep thanks, I'm indeed hoping to take advantage of that! But I have a sneaking suspicion it won't be a big enough quantity to satisfy even the people who've seen this HN submission so may well come down to what time of day / how quickly I see the email
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…
With that Sharp memory LCD and proper suspend that's potentially a gamechanger for the beepy. Any direction you can point me in appreciated.
I want my Blackberry back badly, and this project is giving me hope. The case it a bit too big, there are still battery issues, and of course a 5G card + microphone + loudspeaker need to be added. But perhaps the day will come that I can roll that wheel to view my emails again, use that excellent small keyboard to reply without having to touch glass.
Punkt showed off a device that had me hopeful for awhile but it doesn’t look like they are releasing it.
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.…
You probably have your reasons but I wonder why anyone would need that
It looks cool, but I've found the Steam Deck is the only portable computer that's versatile enough for me to actually use for all sorts of different stuff.
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).
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.