tulipcc VS zamek

> At the risk of being shouted down, this is another one of those products that looks great on impulse buy, but when you try to use that tiny keyboard and screen to do any real work with it, the chore of use becomes apparent.

I purchased one on impulse after this HN post, and some notes so far:

* Keyboard is a hell of a lot smaller than expected. I have small fingers and even this is a bit of a challenge for me. I very much doubt anybody will be coding on this thing. I am thinking mostly to use it as a way of making brief notes and reading RSS feeds.

* The screen is fine, it's something you can live with.

* I installed tulipcc on it (micropython), definitely the right choice to getting started on it quickly.

* I tried to print a case [2] but my printer is not good enough, I think I will send them off to China to be printed on an SLA printer.

[1] https://github.com/bwhitman/tulipcc

[2] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6287501

Source + schematics here

porting my Zamek password manager to the T-Track now https://github.com/jareklupinski/zamek

i wonder where they get their hands on those little trackballs...

after Blackberrys went out, the only way to get any reasonable qty of them was to buy a plastic bag of like 200 from some random vendor; i was never able to get my hands on a steady supply to turn Zamek into a product :(

This was the realization that made me backburner my physical password manager project https://github.com/jareklupinski/zamek

I'm more interested in exploring ways to ease the burden of "thing you know" for a lossy human mind, than racing to the bottom of "thing you have" with a bunch of other hardware vendors.

So far I really like those spinning wheel codexes you can keep on a keychain :) Looks random to everyone else but only I know the exact pattern to turn jumble into password.

e.g. https://github.com/jareklupinski/zamek