Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld

Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by thesuperbigfrog on Thursday August 29, 2019 @01:33PM (#20831740)

It is exciting to see cool handhelds like this! I really want to have a handheld / phone that can handle all of my on-the-go computing and connect to my servers if I need more compute power.

As a tangent, if you have an Android phone and need to do some Linux-style computing on the go, consider Termux (https://termux.com/).

Termux enables your Android phone to run command-line utilities, text editors (vim and emacs), several programming languages (C, C++, Perl, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scheme, and more), web servers, and lots of other tools.

It is one of my favorite Android apps by far.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by freeduck on Friday August 30, 2019 @01:53AM (#20836240)

Another option is userland if you need a full linux

https://userland.tech/

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by ZoomZoomZoom on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:29PM (#20832280)

What I'd really wanted to see, and not sure why it's still not a thing, is some standardized laptop that would allow upgrading it's core SoC. Latest Pis are quite capable for basic tasks and will only get more powerful.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by danbolt on Thursday August 29, 2019 @05:57PM (#20834119)

The MNT reform is looking to have it's initial ARM SoC be replacable with a RISC-V one at a later point. [1]

[1] https://mntmn.com/media/news_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-ref...

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by 5- on Thursday August 29, 2019 @07:36PM (#20834726)

Pi-Top seems to be pretty close.

It's a laptop shell (keyboard + screen + battery + i/o) that has a daughter board (connected to the computer via USB and HDMI) and enough space for any reasonable SBC. Comes with Raspberry Pi as standard.

https://accounts.pi-top.com/products/pi-top/

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by LeoPanthera on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:54PM (#20832492)

What I want more than anything in the world is a Psion-sized portable computer where the brains are provided by the Rasperry Pi compute module: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-3-plus/?...

I’m genuinely surprised that this isn’t already a thing, since it would make upgrades trivial.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by thesuperbigfrog on Thursday August 29, 2019 @06:40PM (#20834416)

I had a Series 5mx back in the day and it was glorious.

Android has all of the capabilities software-wise, but I have yet to find a device that matches the Psion Series 5mx form factor, specifically the folding clamshell and nicely-sized hardware keyboard.

Most external foldable Bluetooth keyboards are too big, rather finicky, and always running out of battery on me.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by sympodius on Friday August 30, 2019 @05:44AM (#20837108)

I'd say the Gemini and the Cosmo are spiritual successors (same industrial designer as the Psion Series 5/5mx I believe): https://www.planetcom.co.uk/

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by fermuch on Thursday August 29, 2019 @10:26PM (#20835492)

The pins of the compute module change between versions. It's not as plug and play as it seems.

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Re:Building a Raspberry Pi 3B+ full keyboard handheld by traverseda on Thursday August 29, 2019 @05:30PM (#20833915)

eoma68 is trying to do that. It's definitely run into some issues though.

https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

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