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The Gibson Rev 001 Dual LCD/E-Ink Cyberdeck
- rcarmo 4y agoDirect link to MP4 demo video: https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1875728025080448/IMG_7098.mp4 https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1875728025080448/IMG_7098.mp4
- csdvrx 4y agoWant
- shultays 4y agoWhich e-ink display is that?
- packetlost 4y agoToo bad you can't buy the Pi CM4 module that powers the whole thing :(
- callmemclovin 4y agoWell it depends where you live, if you happen to live in Germany (I guess they ship to the EU as well), there are quite a few on stock right now at BerryBase, according to rpilocator.com
- packetlost 4y agoIn the US, they're all out of stock...
- partomniscient 4y agoJeff Geerling recently did a stream on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krpac-MaD5s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Krpac-MaD5s
- Grazester 4y agoThe are certainly available online. You just need to know where to look.
- imwillofficial 4y agoI don’t have the tools or time to recreate something like this. It’s too bad I can’t just throw money at somebody to make this for me. But perhaps that’s the point…
- rglullis 4y agoWhat a miserable approach to life, reducing every craft and passion into something that is only worth doing if it can be commercialized.
- junon 4y agoThey're just saying they wish they could have one without needing to make it because they like it. I don't see how that's miserable.
- rglullis 4y agoIt's peak consumerism. The cool thing about a project like this is the act of building it, not of having it. Learning how to work with different materials. Trying and failing different approaches. The joy of seeing it work and the excitement that comes with new ideas for improvements. Saying "I want to throw money at it" is like taking a shortcut and cheating yourself out of the journey.
- stonogo 4y agoFor some of us, the cool thing about a project like this is the act of using it. I don't really want another hobby, but I'd much rather have an interesting computer than a boring one.
- ok_dad 4y agoFor me, owning something like this, handcrafted by an artisan, is to support that artisan and their future work. Just because I can make my own knife from scratch doesn't mean I want to do it, I would rather buy a nice knife from a blacksmith, for example, and just because I probably have the skills to build something like this doesn't mean I particularly want to. I just want to own and appreciate nice things and support the people who make those things. That's about as far from "consumerism" as possible, IMO.
- bpye 4y agoSlightly unrelated to the OP but are there any e-ink displays today that are responsive enough to use for a basic command line Linux display? I really like the idea of having a device similar to think but with e-ink only to use as a minimal terminal - something like the MNT Pocket Reform but with e-ink...
- bebna 4y agoI use an boox air c with bluetooth keyboard.
- AlanYx 4y agoIf you're looking for a plug-and-play device, there are options from Waveshare, Boox and Dasung. If you're willing to DIY, there's a great open source project called PaperTTY that works with almost any e-ink panel. Despite the name being terminal-focused, it also (optionally) supports VNC.
- Melatonic 4y agoMIP might be a better tech to use?
- dflock 4y agoI use a Boox Leaf with a Bluetooth keyboard and it works fine, for this sort of thing.
- Maursault 4y ago"The Gibson" is in homage. This isn't a an actual Gibson product, but a one-off by an independent builder
- johnyzee 4y agoBut can you hack it?
- linsomniac 4y agoThe planet? Yes. edit: Instructions are in that place I put that thing that time.
- amacbride 4y agoAs in William Gibson, author of “Neuromancer” and the originator of the term “cyberdeck.”
- Maursault 4y agoThank you. That makes a lot more sense than what I initially thought.
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- motohagiography 4y agoI love cyberdeck projects. They remind me of how custom motorcycle builders influenced the manufacturers to where they are producing factory street fighters, cafe racers, bobbers, and baggers. That feedback loop hasn't closed between cyberdeck makers and OEMs yet, Framework laptops are pretty close to a modification platform waiting to happen. HMDs are still way too clunky for everyday AR, and I think google glass and snapchat's AR glasses products haven't got traction because they're the AOL cdroms of their technology, but if there were commodity parts for a modification platform I could see it taking off and closing the cyberdeck to OEM loop. It's like there is professional tech and consumer tech, and then a hacker tech is when it becomes surplus, cheap, and available. Examples like the clone i486 PC, the CB500 motorcycle, TB-303, of the 80s and 90s created entire subcultures that yielded generational innovations. Maybe current techs like that will be SDRs, machine learning libraries, adware data sets, etc.
- znpy 4y agoI looks like an ugly copy of those old sony vaio laptops that could fit in a pocket, before it was cool
- BryanA 4y agoDude literally "hacked a Gibson"