Comment on Beepy, a palm-sized Linux hacking playground

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• thann@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Incidentally, you’ll want to avoid draining the Beepy’s battery too deeply if you can help it — according to the schematics (and confirmed on my actual hardware) SQFMI have used a 10K resistor on the “programming” pin of the TP4054 charging IC. That sets the chip’s charge rate to a measly 100 mA, which means a full recharge of the battery would take somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 hours. It’s hard to believe this was intentional, and may be addressed on a later hardware revision.

  Yeah, this is a really cool idea, but they need to flush it out a little more. analogue audio and faster charging would make it a lot more appealing

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  • _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bigger battery might not be a bad idea either, but I say that about everything.

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