It’s $168 plus the cost of a CM5; while it is cool, I would worry that the $200+ device would end up in a drawer…

I suspect an awful lot of us have a mausoleum of abandoned projects where this would feel right at home and is probably downright budget friendly compared to some of the other residents interred there.

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RankingMember 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

The drawer that holds my Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and clones thereof is dangerously overpopulated as it is, but I think I've finally learned my lesson: Now I always have a cooling off period of hours after putting something in an online shopping cart before I click "buy" to see if my interest was just a passing one (usually the case).

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darknavi 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I was looking at $400 modded iPod Classics this morning and my better judgement avoided a new member of the "neat projects" drawer.

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fluoridation 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At least this is small. A few years ago I bought a Sun Enterprise 450 for dirt cheap and I've been regretting it ever since.

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bluGill 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What do you mean - I will get back to that project some year. It hasn't been touched in 15, but I'm still going to get back to it - sometimes around my 2700th birthday most likely (I'm trusting someone else will advance medicine such that I live that long)

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SmellTheGlove 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Mausoleum sounds way more dignified than my junk drawers of half done projects!

If I had a 3D printer I’d build this one for sure. Or the 3D printer would sit in my junk corner. One or the other.

	▲	roughly 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Hey, you gotta send these things off with some dignity - it’s not their fault I’ve got ADHD and poor impulse control.

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Spastche 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

my Pocket C.H.I.P. wants a friend

neat product but what a garbage company that was

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lawlessone 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

it's cheaper than the flipper zero. Something i have found i mostly don't use apart from keeping a copy of my apartment card.

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tracker1 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah... for me, my vision is rather deteriorated, just looking at the size of things in the screenshots I can tell I'd have trouble using it. I can't even use the Steam Deck for that reason. At least my daughter and SO get use out of it.

For about 5 years before Android/IPhone, I used a nokia phone that opened with the screen in the middle of a split querty keyboard on the phone... that thing was perfect for notes/text. I really wouldn't mind something like that or even this device as long as the text could be set to something reasonable for my poor vision to use. I have to max out my accessibility/text settings on android and that's a stretch at times (also exposes so main UI failings).

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neilv 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You could let eBay be your junk drawer.

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DannyBee 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

The CM5 also doesn't have hardware video decoding, making it weird for a handheld device.

I would shove any other cm5 compatible device into this than the actual cm5.

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extraduder_ire 6 days ago | parent [-]

I don't know about other formats, but the CM5 specs sheet says "4K60 HEVC decoder".

	▲	DannyBee 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, you are correct. It has a 4k60 HEVC decoder, i forgot about that. It has no h264 encoder or decoder or other encoders or decoders. I know this from watching lots of people try to use it on 3d printers and discovering that their camera streams now take tons of CPU[1] after "upgrading" from a pi 4b to a cm5. In any case, from just about any perspective, you are better off shoving a rockchip based cm5 compatible board in this. [1] the commonly-used logitech cameras used to do h264 streams, but they removed the h264 encoder chips in all of their models a few years back, without changing any of the model numbers. All the current ones are like yuvy420 at 5fps or mjpeg at 30fps. Even for something like the mx brio. But for things like the c920,if they are old enough, they do h264, and if they are new, they don't.