Beepy, a palm-sized Linux hacking playground

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• tsonfeir@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Can we even get zeros?

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  • derpo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m heading to England in September. I’ll pick up a few for you guys

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  • billygoat@catata.fish ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s what I was thinking. I don’t think I’ve seen them available in the last 3 months.

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  • directive0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Adafruit was rolling through runs of ~70 per day for a while. First come first served. Dunno if they still are. I’d suggest setting up a stock alert with them.

    I snagged one for my Beepy. They were so strict about scalpers they made me set up 2fa so they could verify my account.

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• _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Kind of surprised it doesn’t have better battery life…

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  • 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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• squaresinger@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These old Blackberry keyboards are amazing for stuff like that. They are cheap, avaliable and super well documented.

  Here’s what I made with them: github.com/Dakkaron/Fairberry

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