Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by smcl on Saturday October 01, 2022 @08:13AM
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In Japan people use stamps like this for official documents, like we would use our signature. So maybe "trolling" was the wrong word, but having a "looks good to me!" stamp is a nice little joke :)
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by jogu on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:07AM
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There’s actually three different types, 実印 (official stamp, registered at your local ward office etc), 銀行印 (bank stamp registered when you open a bank account) and 認印 (informal approval seal). For 実印 and 銀行印 the stamp has to be directly tied to your official name. But the last of which can pretty much be anything which is what this is.
When I registered my inkan (as jitsu-in; official personal seal) back in 2009, the rules at the Minato-ku ward office were that it had to contain only the letters of my name, which I imagine is the general rule.
I imagine you could use this more as one of the less formal seals like the mitome-in.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by enneff on Sunday October 02, 2022 @02:34AM
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At google many years ago they gave me an LGTM stamp for something, can’t remember what exactly. Fun thing to have around. This one is much nicer than mine though.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by rambambram on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:18AM
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I really like these projects. I'm in the process of making ('assembling' is a better word) a laptop/tablet kind of computer based on a RPi 4. The technical setup works (using an RPi 4 as my daily driver for a year), now construct the case out of aluminum. My dream would be to connect it to a sort of remote control based on a Pi Zero.
The printer attached to this project is also nice!
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by rambambram on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:06AM
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Do you mean an e-ink display for a small Pi Zero project? I guess that would be perfect. For my RPi 4 pc project I use a capacitive touch screen from Waveshare (7", low power, no extra cables beyond HDMI and USB for touch input).
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by rambambram on Saturday October 01, 2022 @03:20PM
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My own design. Although, some components screwed to three alu plates is hardly a 'design'. First I want to make it portable and probably add some color and finesse later. My initial ideas were about bending alu plates and fitting them nicely, maybe even a powdercoat on it, but I have to do it myself the dirty way first. Just to get it off the ground. There's a lot of nice cyberdeck builds on YouTube, for inspiration.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by thomasfl on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:05AM
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This is basically a really good compact keyboard, with a web browser. This could be an awesome product if the edges around the screen were smaller, and the whole thing was a bit thinner. It would be even more awesome if the keyboard came in different flavors, like for instance a mac layout, and was easy to connect via bluetooth to an iPhone. Yeah, and a trackpad would be nice as well.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by seltzered_ on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:32AM
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I curate more 'everyday use' examples of these ideas at https://reddit.com/r/ergomobilecomputers/ . Theres a few examples of ipad-based setups a bit closer to what you're talking about.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by opan on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:25PM
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What are you looking for when you say mac layout? I'm sure it's trivial to swap super and alt around. Handwired keyboards like this often run QMK which makes it easy to reprogram.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by jsjohnst on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:26AM
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> In a laptop form factor?
Yes, in commercial form available at online retailers even. In fact, they’ve been available for many years dating back across multiple prior versions of the rPi.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by drivers99 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @08:24AM
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I really appreciate this example, especially the keyboard. I’m playing around with bare metal programming on Raspberry Pi and USB is complicated. Instead, this one has a matrix of switches with diodes[1] for the keyboard which you can just scan the switches with the gpio pins. Oh cool, I see he’s also coding in bare metal as well, so that makes sense.
For storage, you can also interface with an SDcard with SPI directly with gpio as well.[2] Raspberry Pi also has SPI controller(s) as well so you could use the built in slot but I’m not sure how complicated it is vs bit banging it with gpio.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by 1MachineElf on Saturday October 01, 2022 @10:15AM
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A small laptop with an ortholinear keyboard is high on my wishlist. I don't have a 3d printer capable of printing something this size, so in lieu of this, I'm setting my hopes on the MNT Pocket Reform.
The "hump-back" laptop style makes a lot of sense for a build using an off-the-shelf SBC, but I wonder if he couldn't have shaved off a bit by going with a low-profile key, like the Cherry MX Low Profile or Kailh Choc Low Profile ones.
Pocket sized would be ideal.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by reilly3000 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @02:32PM
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FWIW I’ve had a fair amount of keyboards over the past few years and I’m very happy with my Cherry MX low profile switches. It feels great with very little in the way of trade-offs vs regular sized switches. My Keychron has proven to be very versatile with Bluetooth connections to my work Mac, iPhone, and personal Linux/Win. I’ve had plenty a long day of coding and winning CS:GO rounds with it. For people into tiny and portable computing it’s tough to beat, and it’s mechanical Mac keyboard features are handy, but not it’s only upside.
I think those would have worked well for this project, but I do love that they are full-sized too.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by norman784 on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:36AM
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Now that linux works on Apple silicon, I wonder if there will be mods like this, while I like the idea of using raspberry in theory, sadly for me is too slow and there are a lot of limitations (hardware wise, is very dated at this point, but cheap).
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by freedomben on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:17PM
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I'm not understanding why Apple silicon being compared to this? Are you just wanting an ARM machine?
I need to make ARM builds of several projects I maintain and the pi gets the job done well (especially when headless so the burden of graphical environment isn't there), but does struggle for normal use, especially as tabs tend to proliferate for me. However, the Pinebook Pro works pretty good for me, and is also ARM.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by norman784 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:49AM
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Because I own a m1 mac mini, I can work without issues and uses about the same power as the raspberry, I don’t know other cpu that’s capable enough and also is power efficient, intel and amd are huge power consumers, other arm processors seems to be bad for daily use as a power user, also AFAIK linux support for m1 seems to be better than the flagship arm processors of the competition and I do not know other pc like device with arm that is not dated hardware.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by norman784 on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:57AM
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As others pointed that you could scrap a m1 mac mini (I own one), also is really another powerful processor and yet power efficient than the m1 readly available and with linux support? I find hard to believe, also it seems that mX family will be popular enough to have out of the box linux support, IIRC all the asahi work will be upstreamed, while I bought a raspberry and the linux support is awful, considering all the years raspberry was already available, most distros does not support it and you rely on a lot of hacks to make them run (I do prefer arch linux over all other distros), also the raspberry is not suitable for my use case, I wanted a workstation with low power consumption and there is none besides m1, maybe in the last 2 years a new one came out that I’m not aware of.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by colordrops on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:57AM
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The anti-soy stuff is ridiculous. The phytoestrogens in soy are minimal and nowhere near as strong as real estrogen. Hops in beer has more, and milk has a lot of real estrogen, but no one seems bothered by those. I'm convinced it's all meat industry propaganda. I'm a male and have been eating a lot of soy and a recent blood test has shown optimal testosterone and estrogen levels.
There is a bit of science behind the seed-oil stuff, specifically poly-unsaturated fatty acids, but the paleo community has grossly exaggerated the issue. I've had people tell me that eating any seed or nut is crazy, and I can't take them seriously.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by smolder on Saturday October 01, 2022 @06:15PM
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And then there's a whole lot of people whose genes give them lactose tolerance into adulthood because the milk of grazers was an important source of nutrition for their ancestors.
But wait, why is this even here? Because someone forgot which post they were replying to!?
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by colordrops on Sunday October 02, 2022 @04:45PM
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It's a small minority when considering the entire population of earth. And even then, it doesn't counter the hormones and other components that cause cardiovascular disease, as well as the brutality of dairy farming. I'm sure dog meat is perfectly fine to eat for most humans.
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by bitwize on Saturday October 01, 2022 @11:20AM
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Looks like a tiny Compaq SLT/286. I'm digging the retro aesthetic, but if it's flimsy plastic like the DevTerm... what's the point? Other than I guess a one-off art project (which this may well be)?
Re:The 'Egg' Laptop
by opan on Saturday October 01, 2022 @12:33PM
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I don't think being thin was a goal. It becomes a nice consistent block shape when closed, like a bento box. It reminds me of an old ThinkPad. There are also similarities to the author's previous Cube PC project in its design style.
The hand-wired ortholinear keyboard and small secondary screen are also of note. A laptop with an ortho keyboard is not very common (sadly).
https://www.ikejima.org/projects/2018071-stamp.html
I imagine you could use this more as one of the less formal seals like the mitome-in.
Shit Works Right
And it did/does! Nice gear.
lgtm = looks good to me
My Japanese is not a good as my Korean.
The printer attached to this project is also nice!
https://www.ikejima.org/projects/2021111-portablecubepc.html
It's inspiring, now I want to design and build my own small computer with everything super-personalized to my preferences.
Yes, in commercial form available at online retailers even. In fact, they’ve been available for many years dating back across multiple prior versions of the rPi.
Ideally with a trackpoint rather than touchpad.
For storage, you can also interface with an SDcard with SPI directly with gpio as well.[2] Raspberry Pi also has SPI controller(s) as well so you could use the built in slot but I’m not sure how complicated it is vs bit banging it with gpio.
[1] https://pcbheaven.com/wikipages/How_Key_Matrices_Works/
[2] Three video series but on Z80 https://youtu.be/To9ZCaAoc_s and https://youtu.be/o2AE_CkTIAU and https://youtu.be/HLdPMOpk-a4
This is a smart man (or woman).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_110
http://oldcomputers.net/hp110.html
Familiar form is standard in this type of situation.
Using polite would be a stylistic choice.
I think those would have worked well for this project, but I do love that they are full-sized too.
I need to make ARM builds of several projects I maintain and the pi gets the job done well (especially when headless so the burden of graphical environment isn't there), but does struggle for normal use, especially as tabs tend to proliferate for me. However, the Pinebook Pro works pretty good for me, and is also ARM.
Project video for a shrunken mac mini by Snazzy Labs- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pQWGFKhBQwU
Note that the Compass had an extremely cool magnesium alloy case. No cheap plastic here.
There is a bit of science behind the seed-oil stuff, specifically poly-unsaturated fatty acids, but the paleo community has grossly exaggerated the issue. I've had people tell me that eating any seed or nut is crazy, and I can't take them seriously.
But wait, why is this even here? Because someone forgot which post they were replying to!?
Yes, it very obviously is.
> what's the point
Because it's there?
It's not even a good case, there's tons of wasted space, it's bulky, etc.
The hand-wired ortholinear keyboard and small secondary screen are also of note. A laptop with an ortho keyboard is not very common (sadly).