They mightve gotten in trouble for that, but it would've been such a good name...

"They", huh?

@@Marc42 Yeah?

Just make it raspberry π

​@@Epsicronicsconsidering they've already renamed to Beepy, I'd say that's the case

The rubber band is the driver. You'll find that out if you stretch it too far! 😅

A stretched rubber band has a service life. The variables that affect the service life is ambient temperature, humidity and average oxygen levels in the air. Other adverse external factors include: salts, oils and acids from sweaty hands. If I were to take a risk-averse approach I would take out insurance on the rubber band, or I would print out a case from ABS plastic.

Damn proprietary lock-in with these rubber bands, this is why we need open-source firmware

😂

We need the rubber drivers, waiting for Elon musk to release them

My esteemed colleague Professor Ribbit of Oxford Lakes University is offended by your flippancy Sir

Very tiny Linux computer.

Lmao a serial number locked rubber band 😂

​@@DellSnoozeApple would clearly do it

​@@nocontext211they absolutely would haha

Reckonize? Tell your local representatives to invest more in public education

@@Nefariously_ignorant do you also speak 3 languages and sometimes mess up? Thought so.

Not reusing old equipment is just lack of imagination.

Some of these may be surplus replacement parts as well, which depending on the model of BlackBerry they're supposed to go into, may actually outnumber the # of working models.

This is all new parts, it's like expensive cool DIY hacker gadget fashion accessory, for those that want to work in "tech" but don't know a gpio from their armpit

​@@Username-qx9gkHonestly I think you're right

@@deepsleep7822 But maybe they have some space part left, it is saving trash

Agreed.

There’s a few on here.

there is a lot of that. you just have to search up

​@@user-fx8cz9dh7tCan you recommend any examples?

If you mean touch screen smartphone with keyboard, yes please. I've seen maybe a handful of brand new phones that are like that.

Well, Nokia had done that recently. It sold for the first month, and people stopped buying

Android swiping keyboard and the new iOS swiping keyboard are often preferable for me and for simple sentences I often type faster with swiping than I do on a mechanical keyboard even.

😭 ikr, i really needed this exact thing

i keep checking out their website hoping for new stock😢

What exactly can you do with this?

@@Yiffboy what can't you do with it? It's a linux box in hand....., All the things, including batterykit is together so don't need to worry about finding a monitor and a keyboard when a damn pi disconncets from network so you don't have to shut it down, a local nas when you are going someware and don't wanted keeps thing running in home to access servives running in server.... there are a lot

@@Yiffboy Run Taskwarrior (a program that helps sort, schedule, and track human tasks) in your pocket. That's what I'd do with it anyway. (The Android Taskwarrior package doesn't work very well. I have no idea if anybody ever got it working with iOS.)

What would you use this for?- practical or fidget or… just wondering.

​@@phantiesim wondering too, any use ?

I miss my HTC Dream 😢

And partnered with them. Imagine typing something but not losing half your screen to the "keyboard" or being able to type quickly and accurately in a moving vehicle. As someone with some hand mobility issues, my Blackberrys have been my best communication tool for nearly 20 years. I still have a KEY² I use for a lot of writing.

Yeah, if it's not obstructing the view, or touch sensitivity(if that's what you're messin' with), there's no reason to expose that screen. I've forgotten these were on a few devices I've had, and was pleasantly surprised with a fresh screen right when I was thinking about buying new equipment (oscilloscope=$$$$, guitar tuner=🤏$😅).🍀

Да : о их отрывают зачем та .. держутся нармально .. 🪔😭

Why?

@@CBrasil1966 I'm holding my old curve from like 2011.. It still turns on and holds a charge. The OS is butterysmooth and as a 27 year old who hasn't touched a video game on their phone in like 3 years, I'd pay to get this Curve working at 4-5g speeds. You have to hold one to understand the genius behind blackberrys engineers and their security is and was on another level. Apple still has nothing on them.

@@CBrasil1966 i had one recently, china one. it was cool to type on a keyboard. the feedback is fun

@@CBrasil1966 Blackberrirys were THE best phones to have for a long time if you were a Professional. It was way ahead of everyone else and highly respected and expensive. When Android phones came out they were quickly adopted but like PC's running Linux or Windows...you had endless vendors coming out with mobile phones sporting Android OS. Price points and features beat out all the other phones.

​@@waverazorWhat do you mean "China one"? Do you mean a Unihertz Titan, Titan Pocket, or Titan Slim?

I had one sitting around and misplaced it 🙈

@@willtwilson to be fair, that's easy to do with how astoundingly tiny they are for what they can do.

Whats this do?

@@JayGotIt23 like all computers: whatever you want them to do.

Yeah, I hope after the first batch finishes shipping in August or September, they'll order up a larger second batch! I'm also hoping they make a really nice case for it, the 3D printed one is functional, but not perfect.

@@JeffGeerling Here's to hoping! And did not expect a reply, it was a passing thought, but truly thank you for all your insight and content. I admire all your work! Also congratulations on 500K subscribers!

@@C_PRTCL Thank you!

What is one thing you can do with this device?

@@richardbryanesqbeep😂

You could play MUD on it.

@@richardbryanesq SSH should work fine right?

​@@richardbryanesqcalculator app 🎉

So far it seems the devs behind this board are invested in it pretty deeply (everything on it works and is at least minimally documented).

@@JeffGeerling The big problem with the Pocket CHIP has been that the company that bought The Next Thing Company when they went bankrupt immediately removed its Github repositories (GPL requirements be damned). It doesn't matter what the Devs intentions are if they can't stay out of bankruptcy.

​@@DrewNorthup Is it possible to find forks? Or did they DMCA and nuke the entire thing?

@@Jeff-ss6qt There were at one point a couple of purported forks, but I didn't have a chance to investigate / clone at the time. I'd have to make another archeological expedition to find out.

I seriously hate KZfaq's comment filtering sometimes.

That’s what I was thinking it was a play date display

Need hot thundery weather for that... ;-P

just get any of the Unihertz Titan series

Count me in bruh

I believe it's based on the BB Q20: www.tindie.com/products/arturo182/bb-q20-keyboard-with-trackpad-usbi2cpmod/

​@@JeffGeerling wait, you're saying those are not keyboards of NOS Blackberry manufacture? Somebody is building the design as a new stock part?

Yeah it would be epic as long as it costs less than a playdate

End of the year, he said... but I believe that when I see it 😔... similar to his 'we'll soon get the Pi 4's back in stock' back, what, about a year or so ago? Yeah, right...

He sctually did my man, is a freaking screen, baterry and keyboard por a raspberry pi zero w

linux based computer.

The q10 was the perfect smartphone.

That's an obvious next step, but for this version, you'd have to dangle a USB a cellular modem off the top!

@@JeffGeerlingI need that version!

@@JeffGeerling dangle a dongle?

@@JeffGeerlingYou could hook the dongle into the battery band, I guess.

Not this version, except maybe if you hacked it with WiFi + Bluetooth. It doesn't have built-in cellular.

Playing around, fooling around, and screwing around. Not necessarily in that order.

learning?

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Unfortunately it’s not reusing old parts. It’s a brand new keyboard designed to _look_ like a Blackberry keyboard. Completely new design from Solder Party.