Lilygo has a number of devices based on the same keyboard but esp32 MCU.

Some with Lora.

https://lilygo.cc/collections/lora-or-gps

Lilygo seems to have no BB keyboards anymore. If you check the product photos on the actual product pages, you’ll notice that they’ve developed their own keyboard and trackball solution.

	▲	andrewstuart 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		I suspect they bought and sold them all. I heard somewhere those spare part Bb keyboards have basically dried up.

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

Unfortunately an ESP32-based gadget is not really in the same class as a rpi-based device; it won't be able to send/receive email, browse internet, run applications like ping/traceroute/tcpdumpetc (useful as a mobile diagnostic tool), run MAME (seriously, a portable computer that doesn't have games is useless to me) and can't easily be programmed for.

At this point, and at these prices, there are very specific use-cases for esp32-based devices, and they are mostly all single-use devices (i.e. capture then process some video, caching it then transmitting it for remote storage is one use-case I have seen in the wild).

An rpi device is much more general.

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crumpled 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Those devices use the older style BB keyboard, the one with the trackball. The Beepy from SQFMI is another Raspberry Pi platform with the trackpad keyboard.

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mbirth 6 days ago | parent [-]

I think the Beepy can be considered abandoned by now. All the YouTubers got one, but they never came back into stock. There’s a waiting list but I’ve signed up to that list like a year ago and heard nothing so far.

	▲	jazzyjackson 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes Beepy is abandoned, there is a community fork now called Beepis https://bbkb-community.github.io/computers/beepis/