A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
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A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
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Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#2Delightful, but in the simulataneous categories of "I would absolutely buy this" and "I do not have the time or energy to make this myself".
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#3Really cool! It would be a pretty thick card though I imagine, as the USB connector requires an above-average board thickness and some of the components are also quite thick (especially that winbond chip, looks like NAND flash).
Kudos on finding something that can run linux without having to deal with BGA by the way.
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#4PS: This was also submitted back in the day and got almost 400 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871026
Might make for interesting reading.
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#5Delightful, but in the simulataneous categories of "I would absolutely buy this" and "I do not have the time or energy to make this myself".
PocketBeagle is a cool very tiny (smaller than a business card) Linux SBC if you want something kinda similar: https://beagleboard.org/pocket
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#6Does it run Doom?
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#7Author also wrote a post on the design process, very interesting I think: https://www.thirtythreeforty.net/posts/2019/12/designing-my-...
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#8I wasn't expecting this to cost less than 3$
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#9Author 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.
Re: A DIY business card that runs Linux (2019)
#10Really cool, but I can't help thinking: All that effort, and you're email address have a "5" in it....