I saw this complaint in another post online (paraphrased):
The screen and use of a Pi seem at odds with each other. The screen is ultra-low power, but there are of course huge drawbacks for usability. Meanwhile the CPU is very powerful, but chews through, comparatively, a lot of power quickly.
They argued that it would be better to either pair the Pi with a better screen for a more powerful/usable handheld, or go all in on longevity and use some kind of low-power chip to pair with the screen for a terminal that could last for days.
… I’ve got to say, it’s a fair point. A low power hand-held that could run Linux and run for days would be pretty cool, even if it was underpowered compared to a Pi. No idea what you could use for such a thing though.
I don’t need a fucking playground Steven I’m not a little kid and you’re not my dad stop coming to my house
Kind of surprised it doesn’t have better battery life…
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
Bigger battery might not be a bad idea either, but I say that about everything.
20 hours
What the fuck. Yes it is a cool product, THAT however needs to be fixed before they launch this thing. 20 hours? Imagine trying to implement this for some kind of project and having to wait basically a whole goddamn day for it to charge lmao
In order to keep costs down the Pi is based on some pretty ancient hardware. DDR2 uses so much power no matter what, it’s not like modern stuff that uses nothing idle.
Yeah, could put a beefier battery in this thing though.
Can we even get zeros?
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.
Glad they’re doing something to verify you’re not a scalper.
I’m heading to England in September. I’ll pick up a few for you guys
If you’re near a microcenter they usually keep them hidden and you have to ask for them. But even when they’re hidden they sell out the day the shipment gets there.
Online will probably be a shit show forever thanks to scalpers.
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What isn’t it? You could wardrive, emulate, run Linux or Windows even make a HackMac. Etc
oh shit you mean like you could do with a 10 year old laptop
