The Perfect Pi Pico Portable Computer
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There is no such LTE modem mentioned in the article, neither in images, so I think there is none. Yet, one image says WiFi...
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RP2040 Pico for CPU and PicoVision from Pimoroni as GPU. His own micro-OS doesn't run Android apps.
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You all downvote but that OS runs on a microcontroller. No need for a UEFI running a bootstrap running a OS that initializes locales for a console that runs a display server that initializes locale settings again to run a webbrowser with his own locale settings for simulating desktop apps.
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It's a Pi Pico. Linux can technically work there, but it's more of a "I ported Doom to a Casio calculator watch" project than anything practical.
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Doom is one of the examples for the PicoVision. It might need some hacking to get the keyboard to work since I think he used I2C to connect it instead of USB, but it can definitely run Doom.
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Oh. My bad. Then interesting, something RSX-level on a little deck, with a something-commander and a snake game. Fun like it's 1983.
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Pop on Meshtasic and maybe a Signal client, and I think this could be useful. Fold-out keyboard might be nice, too, but it does take some careful mechanical engineering to make robust hinges.
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Signal as in those folks whose desktop client for Linux is on electronjs.
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There's no reason it has to be that way on a small computer like this. It does have to be able to handle some encryption, though.
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With LTE working, I could see me ditching my phone for a device like this
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Add meshtastic and it'd be a nice little texting device without relying on external networks.
There's often been times at kink spaces where I want to check the time or send a text or something, but phones or anything that has a camera are banned.
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I think I’m slowly starting to understand the use cases of these small form factor computers. Pretty much Swiss Army knives in computer form.
Makes sense that people are trying to sell them commercially now, even if they are bit experimental and don’t have a defined use case as of yet.
Plus it just looks cool.
