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I'm sure young me would have found a ton of use cases for this, but now I'm old. Can someone tell me one or two things this could be useful for? I want to buy

I'm sure young me would have found a ton of use cases for this, but now I'm old. Can someone tell me one or two things this could be useful for? I want to buy it just because it looks awesome.

traverseda 3y ago
Daylight readable display and physical keyboard make it excellent for all kinds of field work. If you're out doing things in real life this thing seems like a good choice to me. Quick calculation when you're building a chicken coop, use as a glide computer or a biking computer. Lots of outdoor stuff really.
calvinmorrison 3y ago
using the GPIO. But you'd need to build some piggyback connectors. In fact if this had a JST or other connector it would be a lot better. Things like reading resistance values from sensors and displaying them back is pretty trivial, and being able to just load up different scripts to do that instead of, say arduino where you really would need to flash a program for each sensor say, would make it useful.
csdvrx 3y ago
> I'm sure young me would have found a ton of use cases for this, but now I'm old. Invert the problem: get one and try to hack to do whatever. That may help you regain some teen spirit :) It may be better if you found some ideas naturally (chasing a rabbit down its rabbit hole is fun, but chasing your own rabbit is even funnier) However, if you want ideas, here are some simple ones: - listen to your bluetooth devices like toothbrushes, scales, thermometers: try to decode and display what they send. There are many free software projects doing just that for Xiaomi devices - connect a 4G module and try to send SMS. Most 4G modules can be driven with just AT commands so it shouldn't be too hard. The Quectel EC25 is extensively documented thanks to being present in the PinePhone: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SMS_INTERFACE.md https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob... - then try to add a GPS antenna to make a field GPS: check https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#GPS_/_GNSS https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#GPS_/_GNSS - then try to have a LTE data connection, using w3m with its sixel mode to visit google news https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#w3m-integration https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#w3m-integration - try to integrate SMS, twitter etc within one client (twitter example: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#twitter-client-integration https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#twitter-client-integrati... ) to post your GPS coordinates to your friends - one everything works, increase the difficulty: flash a free firmware on the Quectel, and try to improve it, or add functions that would help your other projects, for example A-GPS to get a faster lock: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/tree/kirkstone https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/tree... Each one of this project should take at most one day, and may give you ideas to do more! If you need help, get in touch, my email is in my profile.

I'm sure young me would have found a ton of use cases for this, but now I'm old. Can someone tell me one or two things this could be useful for? I want to buy it just because it looks awesome.

traverseda 3y ago

Daylight readable display and physical keyboard make it excellent for all kinds of field work. If you're out doing things in real life this thing seems like a good choice to me. Quick calculation when you're building a chicken coop, use as a glide computer or a biking computer. Lots of outdoor stuff really.

calvinmorrison 3y ago

using the GPIO. But you'd need to build some piggyback connectors. In fact if this had a JST or other connector it would be a lot better. Things like reading resistance values from sensors and displaying them back is pretty trivial, and being able to just load up different scripts to do that instead of, say arduino where you really would need to flash a program for each sensor say, would make it useful.

csdvrx 3y ago

> I'm sure young me would have found a ton of use cases for this, but now I'm old. Invert the problem: get one and try to hack to do whatever. That may help you regain some teen spirit :) It may be better if you found some ideas naturally (chasing a rabbit down its rabbit hole is fun, but chasing your own rabbit is even funnier) However, if you want ideas, here are some simple ones: - listen to your bluetooth devices like toothbrushes, scales, thermometers: try to decode and display what they send. There are many free software projects doing just that for Xiaomi devices - connect a 4G module and try to send SMS. Most 4G modules can be driven with just AT commands so it shouldn't be too hard. The Quectel EC25 is extensively documented thanks to being present in the PinePhone: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob/kirkstone/docs/SMS_INTERFACE.md https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/blob... - then try to add a GPS antenna to make a field GPS: check https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#GPS_/_GNSS https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone_Pro#GPS_/_GNSS - then try to have a LTE data connection, using w3m with its sixel mode to visit google news https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#w3m-integration https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#w3m-integration - try to integrate SMS, twitter etc within one client (twitter example: https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#twitter-client-integration https://github.com/saitoha/libsixel#twitter-client-integrati... ) to post your GPS coordinates to your friends - one everything works, increase the difficulty: flash a free firmware on the Quectel, and try to improve it, or add functions that would help your other projects, for example A-GPS to get a faster lock: https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/tree/kirkstone https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/tree... Each one of this project should take at most one day, and may give you ideas to do more! If you need help, get in touch, my email is in my profile.