Check out the #pilet, SoulsCircuit’s very cool retro-futuristic handheld tablet/console.
Designed with Free Software, the pilet runs #Plasma and a full range of KDE software.
More at
https://soulscircuit.com/pilet
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Imagine bringing a calculator to school but it turns out its just an entire desktop 😭
But why the ugly beige?
a. It is not ugly, how dare you
b. it is what machines looked like in the 80s and 90s, and it is that retro look the maker is going for
With its beige/white body and brightly-colored buttons, it reminds me of the hand-held electronic football games, and others like it, from the 70s.
Nice idea, using 2 batteries instead of one. Now to see if it can be hot-swappable
I wonder if that keyboard is via a wired interface only. Because something like that would be perfect for a Pico W or ESP32 so that it works detatched. I think this would be great on a desk with a kickstand and the keyboard detatched. There might even be some pins leftover for a “wireless” GPIO header on the keyboard, which would be really cool if you were using the included VESA mount for the tablet
That keyboard looks very similar to various “mini keyboards” on Amazon. I searched for “pc remote keyboard trackpad” and found a couple that are pretty close.
I have had a couple. Don’t expect to type out a novel on it. Between the tiny layout, the straight rows, and the mushy matrix, they are barely good enough for searching for movie titles on Kodi. I’d rather use a phone touchscreen keyboard.
I think it’s pretty hard to make that sort of call from a single photograph, of pre-release hardware. You’ve used the literal cheapest common denominator of keyboards that look like this, something you could probably get on aliexpress for a dollar that’s been rebranded. Besides that, I’m talking about using either one of two open microcontrollers that would make the device and it’s firmware hackable, which is still much cooler than what you probably got from Amazon.
